Lawyer held for stealing motorcycles

The Mumbai Police Crime Branch Wednesday arrested a lawyer for the alleged theft of motorcycles from various areas of the city

The Mumbai Police Crime Branch Wednesday arrested a lawyer for the alleged theft of motorcycles from various areas of the city. Officers from Crime Branch Unit 9 claimed that they have recovered five motorcycles from lawyer Shrikant Mishra,39. In the courts of Andheri and Dindoshi,Mishra is popularly known as Maharaj.

According to the Crime Branch,Mishra used to scrape off the engine number of the motorcycle and sell it off. Acting on a tip-off,the police intercepted Mishra at Oshiwara Wednesday. Mishra was riding a bike that he had stolen. When they asked him to show the valid documents of the motorcycle,Mishra told them that he had forgotten the papers at home.

We realised that Mishra was lying. We opened the side box of the motorcycle MH 06 AH 6283 to find a hammer,a chisel and file, said a Crime Branch officer.

The officers added that Mishra was then nabbed. After intimating the Oshiwara police,they arrested him.

The police then found out that besides the one seized,Mishra had five motorcycles at his residence near Orlem Church in Malad west.

Earlier,Mishra was arrested in Malad for the same offence,the police said. In 2011,the police had recovered three cars and motorcycles from his home.

The officers said Mishra would buy two-wheelers seized by banks from loan defaulters. Usually these motorcycles are scrap. So he gets them for Rs.2,000-3,000 each. After replacing the engines and other parts of the motorcycles,he sells these bikes for more than Rs.20,000, said an officer.

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