The Vidyaranyapura police on Thursday arrested a 30-year-old man who used to steal vehicles which are up on sale on commercial online websites .
Senior officer told reporters,The accused Manjunath N from Kanakapura was arrested based on a complaint by Adarsh,from Doddabommasandra who had put up advertisement to sell his motorcycle.
The accused approached him as buyer and escaped after taking the bike on test ride.
Based on the complaint the police track down the accused through the mobile phone number , which the accused had borrowed taken in the name of another person.
With his arrest the police have cracked as many as nine cases and recovered three cars,a bike and five mobile phones from him.
The accused would not only cheat people who were selling bikes online but also unemployed youth and security guards,Inspector Anil Kumar V, who probed the case, said .
Manjunath would take the certificates from the unemployed youth and security guards promised jobs with decent salary and using their certificates he would buy a SIM card and used them to contact the people who put up advertisement to sell their vehicles online he added.
