Thane: The police have arrested a 19-year-old man for allegedly stealing a automatic pedicab and confiscated seven vehicles from his ownership in Maharashtra, an official said on Tuesday.
After several complaints from automatic pedicab theft in Thane, the police launched the probe into it and arrested the defendant, identified as Ajay Awhad, from the Kalwow area here on Sunday.
The police confiscated seven vehicles collectively worth more than Rs 8 Lakh from him, officials from the Kalwa Police Station.
The defendant was allegedly used to steal the automatic pedicab parked “only for fun”, said the official, adding that the man would drive a vehicle and then left him after the fuel runs out.
Of the seven vehicles confiscated from the defendant, five were stolen from Kalwa and two of Rabat in neighboring Navi Mumbai, he said.