Thane: Four persons held for stealing motorbikes; 11 vehicles seized

Police have arrested four persons and claimed to have busted a gang involved in stealing motorbikes in Bhiwandi area of Maharashtras Thane district reported news agency PTIEleven stolen motorbikes have also been seized from the possession of the accused Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone II Bhiwandi Navnath Dhavle told reporters on Tuesday evening reported PTIHe said there were a number of cases of motorbike theft in BhiwandiThe police worked on several leads including CCTV footage as well as intelligence and technical inputs the official saidOver the last couple of days the police arrested four persons he saidThe police first caught Mustakin Asif Mohammad Amin Ansari 25 belonging to Bhiwandi and got information about the other accused the official saidThe three other accused have been identified as Atik Altaf Munaf Shaikh 23 from Jalgaon Javed Jahid Jabir Sheikh 39 from Padgha in Thane and Hasnain Jaffar Hussain Sayyed 21 from Mumbra in Thane he saidThe police seized 11 stolen motorbikes valued at Rs 335 lakh from their possession the official saidMeanwhile the police in Maharashtras Thane city have arrested three Nepalese men in connection with a theft at jewellery shop during which gold worth Rs 32 crore was stolen police told PTI on TuesdayThe crime branch officials arrested Madhav Giri Dinesh alias Sagar Rawal and Deepak Bhandari all hailing from Nepal on August 20 an official told PTIThe police managed to recover 550 gm of the stolen gold valued at Rs 33 lakh from the trio he saidA gang of miscreants allegedly broke into a jewellery shop in the main market area of Ulhasnagar town on June 27 and decamped with 6 kg of gold jewellery worth Rs 32 crore Deputy Commissioner of Police Crime Shivraj Patil told PTIDuring the probe the police relied on the CCTV footage from the area and technical analysis which revealed that the accused were from Nepal he saidPolice teams launched a manhunt in Uttar Pradeshs Lucknow Varanasi and also searched in the districts bordering Nepal and finally apprehended the trio in one of the border areas the official told PTIWhile three members of the gang have been arrested seven more are suspected to be involved in the crime he saidThe accused are historysheeters and were involved in a similar robbery at a jewellery store in Kamote area of Navi Mumbai in October 2022 the official told PTIThe gang which included the security guard of the shop first surveyed the location and struck when the establishment was closed he saidThe accused were also wanted for robberies in neighbouring states of Madhya Pradesh Gujarat and Karnataka senior inspector Anand Raorane said adding that the local property cell officials are carrying out further probeWith inputs from PTI