Four vehicle thieves held

HYDERABAD: KPHB police arrested four persons including two engineering students and recovered 16 stolen vehicles including 12 cars from their possession.
During the vehicle check at Bhagyanagar Colony on Tuesday night, KPHB police intercepted an Alto car (AP 10 H 5354). As the driver Manoj, a student from SS Institute of Technology in Dundigul, did not have the vehicle registration documents police seized the car and took him into custody.
During the interrogation, Manoj confessed that he along with his friends, Shiva Shankar and Karthik of Proddutur had committed 15 vehicle thefts at KPHB, Chaitanyapuri and Vanasthalipuram in the past one year. Police said that Karthik is an engineering student from Kadapa and Shiva Shankar recently finished his graduation. Shiva Shankar and Karthik used to visit Manoj frequently . Based on Manoj’s confession, police arrested Shiva Shankar, Karthik and Vinod Kumar, who purchased the stolen vehicles, from Proddutur on Wednesday. All the stolen vehicles were recovered from their possession.
“In the past few months, the gang stole 12 cars, three bikes and a DCM van from the city. The stolen vehicles were disposed off at Kadapa,” Kukatpally ACP B Malla Reddy said. The accused along with the stolen property have been produced before the court and remanded in judicial custody.