Pramesh S Jain & Dr B Thomas (Special Correspondent)
Alert Upparpet traffic traffic police on Wednesday caught a bike thief through the newly introduced Automatic number-plate recognition(ANPR) .
Senior officer told reporters,The accused was intercepted by ASI,Mariswamy and his team while conducting random vehicle check on Dhanvanthri road .
The police stopped the man and found that the scooter he was riding was stolen from Koramangala.
The accused was detained and handed over to Upparpet police station for further inquiries .
This is one among the many cases of bike theft.
This is one among the many cases the traffic police have cracked in the recent past.The traffic police,in the last one week,have detected at least four cases of vehicle thefts and fake number plate cases through random checks.
In August this year,Magadi Road traffic police nabbed a 29-year-old data entry operator who was riding his scooter using a fake number plate and violating traffic rules unabated for the last four year.
in July this year,Mahesh Rathod,attached to Rajajinagar traffic station,was assigned duty opposite the Dr.Rajkumar memorial found an abandoned autorikshaw,checked the emission certificate and obtained the contact number of the owner.To his shock, the owner told him that his vehicle had been stolen from V.V. Puram.
On July 13,a vehicle was stolen from Jayanagar 5th block and within 40 minutes, the same vehicle met with a minor accident on 24th Main.
Jayanagar traffic constables deputed at the junction intervened and upon verifying, found that the vehicle was stolen.The accused managed to flee the scene.The vehicle was later handed over to the Jayanagar police.
On July 31,the traffic police caught Syed Aftab,a fabricator by profession,for forging a number plate. He did this to avoid traffic fine and also to default his loan EMI. He was arrested by Subramanayapura police and remanded to 14 days’ custody.
On July 2,the Banaswadi police arrested three drug peddlers during random vehicle check who turned out to be notorious muggers and chain-snatchers.
on June 30, the Kengeri police arrested a 35-year-old bike thief and recovered four stolen bikes worth Rs.3.7 lakh from him.
Manjunath from Rajarajeshwarinagar was caught by the alert police on Uttarahalli main road when they were checking vehicles and found Manjunath trying to slip away suspiciously.
Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,CH Pratap Reddy, Joint CP Traffic Dr BR Ravikanthe Gowda has appreciated DCP Traffic West Kuldeep Kumar R Jain,ASI,Mariswamy and officers and staff for their alert presence while on duty in nabbing the two wheeler thieves by using ANPR cameras in main junctions a suitable reward will be given to whole team who are part of this initiative he added.
