Yogesh K Porwar
Alert Jalahalli police on Monday arrested a 29 year old habitual offender involved in bike theft cases.The police have recovered Five bikes worths 3 lakh from him.
The accused has been identified as,Harish H,29, resident of Yeshwanthpur.
Senior officer told media persons,that as on 6th March the Jalahalli police station cops were conducting random vehicle checking near MES circle.
During a random vehicle check drive carried by Jalahalli police they flagged one TVS bike the cops asked the rider to produce documents while checking the police found that he did not have documents and brought him to the station for inquiry.
During questioning the rider was identified as Harish and a detailed questioning by the team led to confess the crime.
During investigation after collecting his finger prints to check his antecedents it was found Harish is habitual offender involved in several criminal cases and he was arrested by yeshwanthpura police in 2019 in a robbery case.
After coming out on bail,the accused have stolen bikes and based on his statement the team Recovered 5 bikes worth of Rs.3 lakhs from him.
Further investigation was carried out by the Jalahalli police inspector and his team they grilled the accused who spilled the beans that he had had also picked the pocket of a truck driver near Hebbal on january 30 and made away with Rs 16,000 by diverting his attention.
Harish intercepted the truck in the middle of the road and argued with the driver accusing him of not putting indicator in the melee he even pick pocket his wallet.
Later the driver identified as,Jayadev Sarkar realized that his wallet was missing in the melee.
Sarkar later filed a complaint with the police accusing that the biker who created ruckus had stolen the wallet.
With the arrest of Harish,a total of six cases have been solved so far reported in various police station and further investigation is on.
Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP North,Dharmendra Kumar Meena,ACP Yeshwanthpura Sub-Division,Srinivas Reddy NT,PI,Guruprasad A,PSI, Lepakshimurthy and his crime staff as,Srinivasmurthy,Naresh, Ravindra and Naveen Kumar has been appreciated for the commendable job done by them and for the exemplary work done by the alert staff and team a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.
