nagpur a 19yearold man who recently appeared for standard xii examination stole bikes to take girlfriend on a long ride and splurge on food jeans and shoes mohd azhar mustak ahmed ansari walked into the trap of jaripatka police who posed as buyers of the stolen bikes police recovered 15 stolen bikes from ansari and a minor accomplice ansari used duplicate keys to unlock twowheelers andsold branded bikes at throwaway prices such as avenger for 5000 and pulsar for 2500 to unassuming buyers cops have recovered five stolen bikes too which were sold to others while two were left abandoned at bhim chowk and kabrastan police said 10 offences of bike thefts at jaripatka and two of pachpaoli police stations were detected two wheelers also included eight scooters its learnt that ansari stole most bikes from maruti showroom chowk lucky automobile chowk and barakholi the latest detection comes close to the instruction on increasing cracking of cases and recovering stolen valuables issued by city police chief sp yadav at the last monthly crime meeting and review police subinspector sunil raut of jaripatka police station said ansari and his minor accomplice are from a weak economic section of the society who wanted to spend on food and clothes apart from girlfriends ansari does not have a father he worked at a garage but did not earned enough to splurge on his girlfriend he took to stealing bikes and dispose them off to anyone who offered them some price the money he and his friend got would then be spent in enjoying life for few days until cash would exhaust he said the cops got the hint about the duo through constable arun chandne of jaripatka police station a trap was laid by psi raut and his team to trap ansari he was nabbed from automotive chowk apart from raut and chandne the squad comprised of head constable parmeshwar kadu bandu kalamde nitin choudhari and shailesh kumbhalkar under supervision of senior pi chakshupal bahadure police said ansari mostly targeted bikes which would be parked with unlocked handles he would also try steal bikes which were yet to be allotted registration numbers ansari had kept some of the stolen bikes in his locality but at different places ansari produced before court on thursday has been remanded to police custody till july 18 the cops are further probing the matter under guidance of dcp abhinash kumar and acp ramesh tayade