A day after UT Police arrested three youth while driving a car with fake registration number, police succeeded in solving eight theft cases registered with Chandigarh police during investigation of those arrested.
The accused told the police that they had stolen five two-wheelers and three cars from Chandigarh. “During police remand with accused Vikas Kumar, Dalip Sawan and Samdarshan, we have solved eight theft cases registered at various police stations of Chandigarh. However no recovery has been made so far” said Rajesh Shukla, SHO, PS sector-34.
One of the accused Samdarshan has been identified as a wanted criminal who was absconding in an extortion case registered against him in 2013. The three accused were arrested by a police team during a check post at sector-32 on Tuesday night while they were driving a vehicle with fake registration number. One of them managed to escape who was identified as Neeraj.