BENGALURU: Bengaluru Rural police arrested three vehicle lifters and recovered 31 vehicles, including 28 two-wheelers stolen from different parts of the city.
The accused are B
Soofiyan Sharif
, 32,
Sadiq Pasha
, 24, both residents of Vijayapura near Devanahalli and
M Mohammed Sahil
, 22, of Nagavara. “Pasha worked as cab driver while Sahil is a mechanic. Both would identify motorbikes parked on deserted stretches and steal them with help from Soofiyan,” cops said.
Later, Soofiyan, who is a house painter, would sell them to known persons at throwaway prices saying he would get the documents later. “The three mostly targeted motorbikes parked outside bars, dhabas and hotels located near main roads,” cops said. With their arrests, several cases of vehicle thefts reported at Bagalur,
Yelahanka
, Chikkajala, Doddaballapur and Nandi police station in Chikkaballapur have been solved, police claimed.
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