Parmesh S Jain
Cops turned bike stealing kingpin landed in police net .
The West Division police of Magadi Road police have arrested a gang of four person involved in bike stealing cases includes a police constable of Vidyaranayapura police station a mastermind behind the bike stealing and recovered 53 Hi-End bikes worth Rs.77 lakhs from his possession.
The accused has been identified as,Honnappa Duradappa Malagi,@Ravi,26,resident of Narasipura layout in Vidyaranayapura native of Ranibennur, and Ramesha,25 resident of Chickpet,native of Rajasthan.
Senior officer told reporters,as there was a series of bike stealing cases were reported in Vijayanagar Sub-Division,based on which a high level meet was called by DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP, Nanjundegowda K,PI,GT Srinivas,and ACP, Vijayanagar,Crime squad staff were present in the meet.
DCP,Sanjeev Patil collected details of the crime and took stock of the situation as how many bike theft cases reported and after verifying details about the crime incident.
DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil instructed the team to nab the bike thieves by enhancing patrolling and to keep a vigil check on bikes and led a special team under ACP,Nanjundegowda,under the supervision of PI,Magadi road,GT Srinivas,and special squad of ACP Vijayanagar Sub-Division swung into action.
The special squad visited the crime spot and after analysing the CCTV footage the team got some clues and identity of the miscreants.
The team stepped up into action and while checking the vehicles at check points the team got suspecion on a bike rider and flagged the vehicle and asked him to produce the documents the rider dint produce sufficient documents.
The patrolling staff took him to Magadi road police station for further questioning and it was found that it was a theft vehicle the team apprehended him and during investigation the accused confessed the crime and was produced before the court and took him into custody.
The Inspector and team grilled the duo who spilled the beans and revealed that they are working for a person named Ramesh and Honnappa a police constable based on their statement the team rushed to Honnappa residence and found a system and print out fully was set up to create fake documents of stolen vehicles with all materials required to create RC cards.
The team secured him and took him into custody and the crime team questioned him and confessed the crime and based on his statement the team recovered totally 53 Hi-End bikes from him.
A detailed investigation by the team it is revealed that PC Honnappa Duradappa Malagi,and his associate Ramesh,working in a textile showroom in Balepete, and two juveniles.
Constable Malagi teamed up with Ramesh and the two juveniles,taught them how to steal two-wheelers and got the two-wheelers stolen from various places in the city including Hebbal, Jnanabharathi,Magadi Road, Peenya, Yeshwanthpur and Vijayanagar.
Malagi used to create fake documents for stolen vehicles before selling them. He had set up a computer, printer and other required equipment in his house to create fake documents.
After the juveniles stole a bike/scooter of a particular company, Malagi used to search for a similar bike of the same colour on a free classified portal (Olx),download the documents of the vehicles and created fake documents.
Later, they changed the registration number plates and sold them in Haveri, Ranibennur and Bengaluru city.
Malagi,a native of Haveri district, stays in Narasipura Layout in Vidyaranyapura.
He is from 2016 batch and is posted at Vidyaranyapura police station.On OOD,he was working as a driver to an IPS officer.
Malagi even misused and took disadvantages of working as driver to IPS as and when cops caught his associates he used to tell them that they are his known person and he is working as driver to IPS officer and used to release their vehicles.
It is alleged that before joining police force a POCSO case was registered against him and after the case got closed he joined police department and used his criminal mind and trained his associates including two juveniles how to steal a bike but his criminal mind dint work for long time as he thought that no one will doubt on me as I am only a police constable but a meticulous and exemplary work by PI,GT Sreenivas and team landed him in police net.
Finally Chief Minister of Karnataka,Basavaraj Bommai,Home Minister,Araga Jnanendra,DG-IGP, Praveen Sood,has appreciated,Bengaluru City Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,Addl CP,West, Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP,Nanjundegowda K,PI,Sreenivas GT,PSIs,as,and ACP Crime squad,as,PSIs,as,Srinivas Doddamani,Prasanna N,ASIs,as,Mahadevaiah,Kumaraiah DS,and Guruswamy and crime staff as,Krishnappa,Basavarajappa,Dinesh, Ranganath,Shivaraju,KS,Anand,Nikhil and other staff has been appreciated for their excellent and meticulous investigation in nabbing the police constable and his bike lifting team and a special reward will be given to the whole team he added.
