THE PIMPRI Chinchwad police arrested a 23-year-old scholar, who in a determined try to cowl lakhs misplaced in an internet on line casino recreation, allegedly turned to stealing and promoting high-end Royal Enfield Bullet bikes.
Police arrested the scholar and 4 of his accomplices, together with two BTech college students, who helped promote the bikes to varied locations exterior Pune.
Over the past week, the detection department of Chakan police station arrested 5 individuals, together with the mastermind Abhay Kharde (23), a third-year BA scholar who’s a resident of Sangamner in Ahmednagar.
The 4 others have been recognized as Prem Devre (20) from Malegaon in Nashik, Yash Thutte (22) of Buldhana, each of whom are BTech college students in Nashik, Shubham Kale (24) and Ravindra Gavhane (23) from Ahmednagar.
A staff from Chakan police station beneath Pimpri Chinchwad police was probing back-to-back thefts of Royal Enfield Bullet bikes from numerous locations in and round Chakan since July. Whereas investigating the leads from a few of these instances, a staff from the detection department meticulously probed footages from round 150 CCTV cameras. The staff established that the suspect who was stealing the bikes from Chakan space was going to Sangamner.
Utilizing technical leads, the police staff zeroed in on and first arrested Kharde, who had been utilizing a selected modus operandi to tamper the deal with locks and ignition of the Royal Enfield Bullet bikes to steal them. In additional investigation of the leads obtained from Kharde, the 4 different suspects have been arrested subsequently. Police have recovered as many 11 bullets stolen from Chakan space since July, together with seven different bikes.
“Probe revealed that Kharde misplaced some huge cash in an internet recreation. In a bid to recuperate these losses, he began stealing Royal Enfield Bullet bikes and promoting them with the assistance of his accomplices. Nevertheless, he additional misplaced cash earned from the proceeds of the crime on the identical on-line gaming utility,” stated Deputy Commissioner of Police Dr Shivaji Pawar.
One other officer, who’s a part of the probe stated, “Kharde misplaced near Rs 10 lakh earlier than and after he began stealing and promoting bikes. The sport he had been taking part in poses a excessive danger of playing habit and entails gamers putting their bets on the random motion of an object on display screen. We imagine that Kharde learnt the modus operandi to tamper the deal with locks and ignition of the Royal Enfield Bullet via on-line movies.”
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