Imphal, April 4 -- Police have busted an organized vehicle-lifting gang operating along the Manipur-Assam border, leading to the arrest of a suspect and the recovery of four stolen vehicles.

Acting on intelligence inputs about the gang's activities in Manipur's Jiribam district and Assam's Cachar district, a special operation was launched by Jiribam police over the past 48 hours in the border areas of South Assam.

The operation resulted in the arrest of a suspected gang member, identified as Nurul Islam alias Bapon (28) from Kamaranga Village under Jiribam Police Station. Based on his interrogation, police recovered four stolen two-wheelers, though other members of the gang remain at large.

The gang had been actively targeting two-whee...