The Commissionerate police busted a five-member motorcycle lifters’ gang in Cuttack city on Saturday and seized 35 motorcycles and a Tata Magic vehicle. City DCP Prateek Singh said on basis of a complaint lodged at Jagatpur police station on September 14, 2020 alleging loot of a Tata Magic vehicle, the police registered a case and launched a probe.
During investigations, one Papu Charan Roul alias Papu and Jagabandhu Roul alias Jagan were detained.
While checking their antecedents, it was found that the duo was veteran looters. Papu and Jagan accepted that they looted motorcycles from different districts. Based on the statement of the duo, the Jagatpur cops went to Binjhar and recovered 35 bikes from different places.
Also, three more persons Ratikant Pradhan, Prashant Samal, Munna alias Pratap Sethi were arrested.
The five looters used to keep the vehicles at one place in Binjhar and sell them to suitable customers at Rs 4,000-5,000 each.
Investigations are on to find the complicity of others in the case, he added.
