The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police on Saturday claimed to have solved seven cases of vehicle theft registered with UT police with the arrest of one accused from Chandigarh.
The accused, Gursewak Singh, a native of Rajasthan, was arrested during a special trap laid near Colony-5 while he was going in a stolen vehicle on Wednesday.
During interrogation, he admitted that he worked as an auto-mechanic at Sector-48 and he started stealing vehicles to maintain a lavish life style from different places in the city with masterkeys and after using the stolen vehicles he used to abandon them in the free parking lots of the city.
Chandigarh Police have solved total seven theft cases registered with it and nine stolen vehicles have been recovered from his possession which includes eight two-wheeler and one car. Police produced the accused in the district court from where he was sent for three days police remand for further investigation.