Two days ago, police seized two motorcycles with the same number plate. Those motorcycles were a bullet and another duke.
According to the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, both the motorcycles had state-2-19 Pa 7537 number plates. Both of these motorcycles, which are very expensive in the market, were stolen.
Along with these, the police have also recovered a stolen bullet motorcycle (No. 2-18P 962) from another state.
Police seized three stolen motorcycles from different parts of the capital on Saturday and Friday.
Police have also recovered a car bearing registration number 3-0023-7623. Hyundai's Centro car is worth around Rs 2.8 million.
The Duke motorcycle is worth around Rs 800,000. Bullets cost up to Rs 600,000.
According to Superintendent of Police Krishna Pangeni, the police had launched a search operation in Kathmandu after receiving information that there was a large number of stolen vehicles. In the same connection, the police had initially arrested a bullet motorcycle (Province 2-18P 962).
The motorcycle was kept for sale by Arjun Kathayat, 32, of Krishnapur Municipality-5, Kanchanpur.
Police arrested the bullet-ridden motorcycle parked in the parking lot inside the teaching hospital. Kathayat used to run a vegetable shop in front of the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. He was arrested by the police in Basundhara.
"We interrogated him after he was arrested for searching for a stolen motorcycle," Pangeni said. "He showed me not only the place where he did business but also another person."
According to Pangeni, the vegetable shop is understood to have been set up to 'deal' with the sale of stolen vehicles. He had reached Basundhara in search of customers for the motorcycle.
According to Kathayat, the other person was Krishna Bahadur Rokay, 33, of Kanchanpur Krishnapur Municipality-2.
He is a young man in the Nepal Army. He was working at Sainik War College in Nagarkot. He was arrested by the police from Baneshwor.
Another bullet and a Duke motorcycle were found in Basundhara and another in Mulpani.
"They have said that they are bringing the motorcycle capital from Gauriphanta Naka of Kailali by evading customs. It is understood that other people are also involved in it," said Pangeni.
According to SP Pangeni, Jawan Rokay is the main culprit in the theft of motorcycles from India. He used to bring it and hand it over to Kathayat. He even makes fake bluebooks for such motorcycles and sells them to people.
"The authenticity of these motorcycles was sought from the transport office," Pangeni said. "Then the blue book was found to be fake."
Pangeni said that they also provide finance facilities on the basis of the same blue book. "We have asked for detailed documents on the nature of the finance," he said.
The involvement of Kathayat and Rokay has also been seen in the business of stolen cars. Police had recovered the car from Mulpani.
It has been revealed who was using the car. But the man has not been arrested.
"A fake blue book made in the name of Ganesh Vik has been found. We are looking for people," said Pangeni.
Ganesh had already taken Rs 1.5 million from another person for that car. It has been found that Ganesh and Kathayat had parked their vehicle in Mulpani to give to a goldsmith.
According to Pangeni, the stolen vehicles and motorcycles are brought from the customs checkpoint. He said that cars and motorcycles used to come in the 'setting'.
"An investigation is underway into what that setting is and who is involved," Pangeni said.
On Wednesday alone, the branch had arrested two persons along with Ba 19 Cha 2036 and another Creta car whose number plate was not affixed.
Police arrested Agya Gurung, 38, of Damodarkund, Kathmandu-6, and Sonam Tashi Yolmo, 43, of Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.
Earlier, the police had arrested four persons on July 3 along with a Creta vehicle (Ga 3 Cha 1462 and Pradesh 3-01-024 Cha 0253). While searching for the persons, the police found a factory for making fake certificates, licenses, and blue books.
Chief of the Crime Investigation Office, Senior Superintendent of Police Chandra Kuber Khapung said that these are just a few examples of stolen vehicles being seized by the police. These expensive cars and motorcycles were seized within a month.
According to Khapung, it is understood from some of these incidents that the stolen vehicles are big in Kathmandu.
"While confirming the information we received, these are some of the representative incidents of people being arrested for being involved in stolen vehicles and business," Khapung feared.
Some of these people have brought stolen vehicles and made fake documents and sold them to the customers at a cheaper price. Even if the consumer who buys such a car has a sudden benefit, in the long run, the stolen car will cause problems.
The problem with stolen vehicles is that when an accident occurs, the police search for the documents and identify the authenticity of those documents.
"By then, where the sellers have reached, the buyers may fall into the trap of stolen vehicles," Khapung said.
So buying a car or a motorcycle can be risky, says Khapung.
