PUNE: The Bibvewadi police arrested Akbar Hussain Shaikh (27) of Velhe on the charge of stealing motorcycles.
Police, who recovered four motorcycles from him worth Rs 1.05 lakh, said he had taken to stealing them after losing his job. A police team headed by senior police inspector Sunil Zavare, inspector Anita Hiwarkar, assistant inspector Rajesh Usgaonkar and police constable Tanaji Sagar nabbed Shaikh on Friday evening near Bibvewadi bus depot.
Shaikh, a casual worker, confessed to stealing four bikes from Bibvewadi, Sahakarnagar and Koregaon Park. He also gave the locations of the four bikes that the police later recovered. Zavare said, “Shaikh had lost his job and his wife was pregnant and he needed money to support his family. He then decided to steal motorcycles and sell them in rural parts.”
The Bund Garden police recovered 13 motorcycles from construction site worker Akhtar Chand Mujawar (44) of Banwadi in Satara. Mujawar had stolen them from the premises of Sassoon General Hospital.
A police team arrested Mujawar from his village on Saturday. “The police scanned 200 CCTV cameras’ footage near Sassoon hospital and realised that one man was stealing motorcycles,” said deputy commissioner of police (Zone II) Sagar Patil. A source informed Bund Garden police about Mujawar’s presence in Satara.
He could not sell them as he did not have any documents, so he kept them at home and at a dhaba. Patil said, “Since January, 17 motorcycles have been reported stolen from the Sassoon hospital area.”
