Pune Crime Branch Unit V recovers 27 stolen bikes
Pune, July 30, 2019 : Two persons were arrested by Crime Branch unit 5 of Pune city police on Monday and 27 stolen bikes, worth Rs 9.65 lakhs, recovered from their possession. Two of their accomplices are on the run.
Head constable Amzad Pathan received information that persons are riding a Bullet motorcycle without number plate in Kalepadal area of Hadapsar. Accordinly, a team led by PSI Somnath Shendge nabbed Shubham Vinod Bhandare (25) of Parbhani who lived in Latur and Chetan Ravindra Himgire (26) of Sangli district, who resided in Hadapsar.
According to police, the gang members have stolen about 45 bikes till now. They used to prepare fake RC book and sell the bikes at low rates in rural areas including in Parbhani, Latur, Nanded etc. They had also mortgaged some of the bikes to obtain loan money
Additional CP (crime) Ashok Morale, DCP (crime) Bachchan Singh and ACP (crime II) Bhanupratap Barge supervised the investigation team which included Police inspector Datta Chavan, API Bhalchandra Dhavcle, Santosh Tasgaonkar, and policemen Santosh Mohite, Pradip Surve, Pravin Shinde, Rajesh Ransing, Datta Katam, Rajabhau Bhorde, Sanjay Deshmukh, Kerba Galande, Mahesh Salvi, Daya Shegar, Sachin Gholap, Pramod Gaikwad, Ankush Jogdande, Mahesh Waghmare, Pravin Kalbhor, Pramod Ghadge and Sanjay Dalvi.
