CUTTACK
: Commissionerate Police on Sunday busted a gang of
bike-lifters
in the city. Five persons were arrested and four motorcycles and 16 mobile phones found in their possession.
The accused were identified as Dipu Pingua, Saroj Das, Amira Nayak, Krushna Chandra Nayak and Ashok Sahoo. Police acted on a complaint by Madhusudan Sahoo of Dadhapatana in Cuttack regarding the theft of his bike near
Puri
canal road on June 3. Getting a tip-off from a source, police caught Dipu and Saroj while they were shifting the bike to a garage in Cuttack on Sunday.
During interrogation, the duo revealed the names of all the gang members and information about the stolen motorcycles and mobile phones.