Trichy: Despite the arrest of two-wheeler thieves at regular intervals, there has been no let-up in the incidences of bike theft in the city. In the past two days, six bikes were lifted from the roadside within city limits. On Sunday, Cantonment police arrested two bike thieves including a minor boy and recovered seven bikes from them.Police said the bikes were stolen from Ashok Nagar in Karumandapam, near Pathanjali silks in Bharathidasan salai, Viswas Nagar in Karumandapam – in the jurisdiction of Cantonment crime police besides from Kamarajar street, SMESC colony and Ayyappa Nagar under KK Nagar police jurisdiction on January 14 and 15. The two police stations registered the six cases involving bikes of various brands.In almost all the cases, the thieves lifted the bikes in the morning. The police blamed the absence of safety measures in the vehicles or malfunction of the locks of some of the brands of the bikes for making things easier for the offenders. The police said that the thieves used fake keys to move the bikes knowing that the key hole of many of the vehicles was wide enough to allow any key to operate. The stolen bikes found a ready market in the rural areas where the buyers didn’t mind the legal issues of buying stolen bikes at a cheap price. The lack of vehicle checking in the rural areas also gave them a free hand to ride such bikes.The police suggested installing additional locks, burglar alarms and GPS tracking to safeguard the bikes. A police officer said that bike manufacturers themselves could incorporate such facilities instead of making them extra fittings.While the thefts remain unstoppable, the police also constantly cracked the bike theft cases. On Sunday, Cantonment crime police arrested A Dhamas, 20 from Manikandam in Trichy and a 15-year-old juvenile in conflict with law from LIC colony in KK Nagar. Seven bikes (four stolen from Cantonment limit and three from KK Nagar limit) were recovered from them. Both of them were school dropouts and had already been arrested by E Pudhur police for twowheeler theft and remanded in jail. They were even convicted for three months by the court, said the police. However, on their release, the duo resumed their crime targeting the bikes.

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