15 vehicles worth about Rs. 8 lakh recovered

Mysuru:  The City Crime Branch (CCB) Police personnel, who conducted an operation near the City Bus Stand on Sept. 8, found four persons standing in a suspicious manner and took them into custody.

On questioning them, the Cops came to know that they were bike-lifters and also pick-pockets and formally arrested them.

The arrested are 25-year-old Taufiq of Yelwal, 22-year-old Balaraj of Hootagalli and a native of Dharmapura in Hunsur taluk, 22-year-old Vijaykumar of Dhanagalli in Jayapura hobli and 20-year-old Gunavardhan of Bogadi and a native of Palahalli in Srirangapatna taluk.

During interrogation, the accused are said to have confessed of lifting two-wheelers and committing pick-pockets at Mysuru, Mandya, Ramanagara and Bengaluru. Based on the information provided by the accused, the Police have recovered 15 two-wheelers of various companies worth about Rs. 8 lakh and also articles bought by them by through the money got by committing pick-pockets.

Following the arrest, the Police have solved one case each in Hebbal, Mandya East, Krishnaraja, Metagalli, Byatarayanapura, Ramanagara Town and Ijur Police Stations and two cases in Chamaraja Police Station limits in Bengaluru. The Police are yet to trace the owners of six two-wheelers. This apart, two cases of pick-pockets has been solved in Bengaluru Railway Police limits and Devaraja Police limits in Mysuru.

DCP Dr. Vikram V. Amathe and CCB ACP B.R. Lingappa supervised CCB Inspectors Prasanna Kumar and R. Jagadish, ASIs Raju, Chandru Gowda and R. Nagubai and staff Rajendra, Ramaswamy, Chikkanna, Yakub, Shariff, M.R. Ganesh, Lakshmikanth, Shivaraju, Srinivasaprasad, Arun Kumar, Purushotham, Niranjan, Prakash, Anand, Anil, Raghu, Narasingh Rao, N.M. Nagesh, Chamundamma and others in the nabbing and recovery operation.