chennai police on saturday arrested a 53yearold woman on charges of stealing a motorbike from an apartment complex on burkit roadthe woman identified as shanti alias dil shanti has been committing attention diversion thefts for more than 16 years according to police she was a constant problem in t nagar areas especially during festival shopping period till 2022 after a years break she surfaced again and landed in the police netpolice said a bike missing complaint was lodged in the mambalam police station on june 28 while checking cctv camera footage police spotted a woman in salwar kameez face covered with shawl riding the scooter awayfurther investigations revealed that shanti had alighted from a share autorickshaw police traced the auto number upon inquiring the driver said she had boarded his vehicle in ambattur we checked with her family and that led us to her house in vepampattu the stolen bike was outside her house said a police officer shanti was arrested and remanded in judicial custodythe first crime sheet in her name was opened in pallavaram station in 2007 in 2009 her name surfaced in mambalam police station for attention diversion thefts said the officerit is suspected that she started stealing after her first husband died shanti started working as a servant and resorted to petty thefts she married again in 2014 but does not live with her family once she commits an offence she changes her house she travels either by suburban train or share autorickshaw to different places during weekends and commits the crime he addedarun kabilan deputy commissioner t nagar advised people not to leave their keys in the bike this is easy target for thieves especially in a shopping district like t nagar he said k bharathi rajan assistant commissioner t nagar said in a year at least 20 bike missing cases are reported in all these cases the complainant left the keys in his bike while getting into a petty shop these stolen bikes are then abandoned in bus termini or railway stations and used by the thieves for committing other crimes he said