Parmesh S Jain
The Hennur police on Wednesday arrested two persons who were stealing cars from service stations and selling them after fabricating the documents.
The accused has been identified as, Manjunath,27,Sheikh Nawaz,22.
Senior officer told media persons,the service station owner approached to Hennur police station and registered complaint stating two persons posing as customer came to their show room on February 21 and stole the SUV after hoodwinking the security guard .
Following the complaint the police flashed the message around the city alerting their counterparts to keep an eye on the stolen SUV.
Inspector,M Vasanth flashed the message across city and swung into action .The accused were caught while they were driving the stolen SUV in Ashoknagar involved in a self accident and the police on duty caught them and alerted the Hennur police,who had circulated the details of the stolen car.
The duo identified as Manjunath,27 and Sheikh Nawaz, 22, was brought to station along with the stolen car.
During investigation the duo confessed the crime A detailed questioning led them to confess one more vehicle theft case which is reported in Mahadevapura police station limits.
Based on their confession the police recovered two cars worth RS 6.9 lakh from them.
Manjunath and Nawaz are part of the gang led by Salman,a habitual offender who is now on the run.Efforts are on to track him down and further investigation is on.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP,East, A Subramanyeswara Rao,DCP,East,Dr Bheemashankar Guled,ACP, Ningappa B Sakkiri,PI,Vasanth M,PSIs,as,Basavaraj J,Ningaraj,Pratap,ASIs,as,Askar Mirja,Althaf and crime staff as,Purshottam,Bheemappa,Muniraj,Umesh,Ambanna Kattimani,Santhosh,Ghouse P,Kasim Sab and alert police personnel of Ashoknagar traffic has been appreciated and a suitable reward will be given to the whole team who has nabbed the duo car thieves and solved the case within 48hours and a suitable reward will be given to the whole team he added.