Keep an eye on the 'doctor’ who steals bikes

This ‘doctor’ promised to open the eyes of the city police but was soon found out.

The city police on Monday arrested 21-year-old Waheed-ur Rahman for stealing vehicles from city parking lots. Bharathinagar police have recovered two cars and 30 motorbikes worth Rs30 lakh from Rahman.

On December 11, Rahman approached BB Ashok Kumar, assistant commissioner of police, Bharathinagar police station, claiming that he was an eye specialist at Mahaveer Jain Hospital in Vasanthnagar and wanted to hold a free eye checkup camp for policemen.

Five minutes later, Rahman returned with a request to get a motorbike (red Pulsar) seized by the police for not having proper documents to be released since it belonged to one of his friends. Rahman had gone to the police station on a red Pulsar and when the alert cops checked the documents of the seized vehicle, it turned out to be that they belonged to the one the ‘doctor’ was using. When the cops grilled, Rahman said that he had sold his friend Ajmath the seized bike for Rs20,000.

The police said Rahman, who also used to visit an eye clinic on Infantry Road, was involved in more than 50 vehicle theft cases in the city. Rahman, a native of Tumkur, has been a resident of Benson Town for the past one year.

Ashok Kumar said Rahman had kept a collection of duplicate keys to steal vehicles. He used to put a red colour “press” sticker on the windshield of stolen cars to evade cops.

Rahman used to change the registration numbers of the stolen vehicles and sell them in Tumkur. The police said Rahman had stolen vehicles from Bharathinagar, Commercial Street, High Grounds, JC Nagar, Wilson Garden and Vijayanagar.