Zirakpur, July11

A vehicle thief was arrested near the Baltana light point here. The police have recovered a stolen motorcycle and a scooter from him.

The suspect has been identified as Jaswinder Singh, a resident of Rampura village of Sangrur district.

The police said the suspect had stolen the motorcycle from Patiala. The scooter was stolen from Wadhawa Nagar, Baltana, on June 10. He had hidden it in Baltana and was in the process of selling it. A case in this connection was registered under Section 379 of the IPC at the Zirakpur police station.

The suspect was produced in a court on Saturday and remanded in one-day police custody. During the interrogation, it came to light that the suspect had also stolen several vehicles from Patiala and Sangrur. — TNS