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The seized bikes at Sakchi police station on Wednesday. (Animesh Sengupta)
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It’s a gripping comic thriller. A policeman finds his bike stolen before a temple, his colleagues spot the nameplate on a different two-wheeler days later, nabs the biker who spills the beans about the gang.
East Singhbhum district police on Wednesday disclosed it busted a gang of bike-lifters and made five arrests after raids in Sakchi and Mango.
The trigger was the theft of policeman Bijay Kumar Yadav’s bike from near Shitala Mandir in Sakchi on March 12. Yadav, an accountant at the SSP’s office in Bistupur, had lodged an FIR with Sakchi police the same night.
This Monday, during an arms raid near Sakchi’s Lifeline Nursing Home, a team spotted the distinctive red-and-blue nameplate — special ones meant for vehicles of policemen — on a bike. Suspicious, police caught the youth, who turned out to be Abdul Ansari alias Sanjay of Kapali, Mango, a bike thief.
He divulged the names of his buddies — Md Sadab, Md Faizan, Aslam Khan and Md Bakar. Sadab and Faizan stayed in Sakchi, Aslam and Bakar in Azadnagar, Mango.
Police also recovered five stolen motorcycles during raids, including Yadav’s.
According to the police, the gang frequented hospitals, temples and marketplaces in Sakchi and Bistupur.
They kept tabs on persons parking bikes, used master keys to lift a two-wheeler and then zipped off.
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