Stephan Kayyar
Daijiworld Media Network - Kasargod (EP)

Kasargod, Feb 13: Police have taken into custody four people including two students for alleged theft of bikes in Kasargod.

The arrested are between 16 to20 years of age and are identified as Malappuram Makkadam Pulikkal resident M C Naufal (20), B K Mubashir (20) and Malappuram Mambadam Pulikkal resident Vishnu alias Manikuttan (20).  The fourth suspect is a 16 year old boy.

Police have said that Naufal is a student of a private engineering college in Koyikkode and Vishnu is a second year engineering student in Mangalore.  Naufal is an employee at a textile shop and the sixteen year old boy works as a laborer.

The arrested have confessed that they have stolen bikes from several places in Mangalore and Malappuram.  A bike of Karnataka registration is recovered from them.  Police who were on night duty checking vehicles near Hosangadi on Monday, February 10 have taken the four into custody.

Naufal and Mubashir had reached Mangalore from Malappuram to meet Vishnu. They were on their way to Kasargod after stealing a Pulsar bike from Mangalore KMC hospital premises.  The police who saw the four riding on one bike made them stop the bike for questioning and the four could not give satisfactory answers to the police. 

The police who grew suspicious subjected them for further questioning when the culprits admitted that the bike was stolen from Mangalore. They have been arrested.