Police arrested a gang, for stealing lorries

Hyderabad, April 14: The Shamshabad Police have arrested a gang of Eight members, who were involved in stealing lorries on Thursday.

The miscreants, who were dismantling them and subsequently selling their spare parts.Police also recovered over Rs.1.5 crores worth stolen material from the group of eight.

Shamshabad police said Mohammed Abdul Raheem, the prime accused, had employed seven persons --Syed Iqbal, Kavvagudem Narasimha, Boya Venkatesh, Syed Khaja Pasha, Ramesh Kumar Maniar, Mohammad Abdul and Mohammed Zameer-to steal lorries.

Raheem was maintaining an inter-state gang, whose members were drivers, mechanics, and scrap dealers. Raheem had purchased a piece of land abutting ORR, erected a big compound wall and was using it as a farm house.

The drivers, in his gang, used to steal parked lorries, change registration number of the vehicle and drive the vehicle straight to the farm house. The mechanics used to dismantle the lorry, while Raheem would transport the parts to other states. He used to sell the engine and other parts of the lorry.

Police have seized an Ashok Leyland lorry, four Ashok Leyland lorry oil tanker, a lorry container, three lorry cabins, 82 lorry tires, aluminum plates weighing 550 kgs, a gas cutter, all worth over Rs.1.5 crores.

Also, a crane, a lorry, and a DCM, which were used in shifting the dismantled vehicles, were also seized.