Three members of a gang of tyre thieves were arrested on Sunday, while the main accused is in critical condition in the hospital at Jolly Grant. The main accused had met with an accident near Muzaffarnagar when he was going to sell the stolen tyres. Four separate complaints were filed in Dalanwala, Rajpur and Kotwali of tyre theft in the month of June. According to the police, the three arrested accused owed money to the main accused. In order to pay him back they devised a plan to steal tyres and then sell them in other states. Police have successfully retrieved 10 stolen tyres, out of which four are from the same car, complaint for which was registered on June 6. The accused have been identified as Luv Raghav, native of New Delhi, Saksham Aswal resident of Nashville Road and Aniket Verma also resident of Nashville Road.
The fourth accused who is under treatment in Himalayan hospital is Sardar Prateek Singh, native of Gurdaspur in Punjab. Giving details of the arrests Superintendent of Police (city) Shweta Choubey said, “We received two complaints of tyre theft in police station Dalanwala and one in Rajpur police station. After checking the CCTV footage, one suspicious vehicle was identified at every crime scene.
When the car was tracked it always used to take the route towards Nashville Road. After identifying the number, we found that the car had been bought and sold on OLX a number of times, last it was bought by Saksham Aswal for Rs 40,000.”
She further added, “The same car was used when they went to steal tyres from the cars that are parked on the roadside. The accused Luv Raghav has a criminal history and was out on bail.” Police have recovered four tyres of Honda city, two-two tyres of two different Creta and two tyres of Swift. The cases against them were filed under sections 379/411 of the Indian Penal Code.