Homeguard among three nabbed for stealing bikes

A homeguard was among three people arrested by the police here for allegedly stealing bikes, from whom 30 stolen two wheelers were seized, it was officially announced here today.

According to a release issued here by the Panjagutta police officials, accused S Bikshapathi Raju, who is a homeguard attached to the Karimnagar Headquarters in Telangana, R Anjaiah who is an autoricksahw driver and S Devender who is a private employee were arrested yesterday and 19 cases filed at different police stations in the city were detected.

Raju was earlier arrested in a cheating case and was lodged in Jagityal after he married a second woman in Karimnagar in 2011. There he met Anjaiah. They remained in contact after being released on bail. Raju continued his job as Home Guard in Karimnagar.

When Anjaiah and Devender visited Hyderabad to meet Raju, they made him to learn the skill of bike lifting in 2014. They sold vehicles by telling the customers that it was on finance and documents was with the finance company and persuade the buyer to give small token amount of Rs 5,000 or Rs 6,000 and pay the balance amount after receiving the original documents.