nagpur a 28yearold commerce graduate rishabh asopa belonging to a businessmans family was arrested by sitabuldi police on wednesday for stealing bikes from different parts of the city police have recovered 12 bikes from asopa who used to mortgage them to have parties with his rich friendspolice said asopa has some 15 offences registered against him at various police stations its learnt he approached many of his contacts to mortgage the bikes claiming they were his own as he needed money urgently for his fathers cancer treatment asopa would accept whatever was offered in return for the mortgage ranging from rs40005000 to rs10000 he would never return to take the bikes back or answer calls from the persons duped by himsitabuldi police said asopa is also engaged in an illicit relationship with the wife of a coaccused for which he needed money regularly and also splurged on her generously asopas elder brothers are in the hardware business which his eldest brother operates from gujarat it seems asopa had started stealing bikes as he needed money to party around with his friends who were from rich backgrounds said a cop who was part of the investigationasopa was nabbed after one of the persons to whom he had mortgaged one of the stolen bikes revealed his modus operandi to sitabuldi police who were already searching for him he was trapped near manas chowk by sitabuldi police team of assistant pi santosh kadam subinspector kailash magar head constable jaipal rathod constables pravin wakode and others under inspector amol kachorepolice said asopa was an addict too in the past but his family had helped him undergo rehabilitation during investigation asopa admitted committing thefts at tehsil ganeshpeth lakadganj kotwali jaripatka and other localities said a copasopa had master keyrishab asopa was a seasoned bike thief and carried a couple of master keys as the master keys work well on old activa and deo scooters he would mostly steal such vehicles from different places asopa would look for vehicles left parked on the roads whether in front of someones house or in parking lots