Delhi Police has arrested two persons who stole luxury cars from car rental companies and recovered four stolen luxury cars at their instance from Uttar Pradesh and worked out four cases of criminal breach of trust.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, south district, Ishwar Singh, said the accused has been identified as Rohit Kumar Singh (30) Praveen Saxena (36).
“The complainant in the case had reported that one person, who introduced himself as Rohit Kumar, hired a Maruti Suzuki Swift car from their company and the vehicle was handed over to him as per their procedure. When the vehicle was not returned to the company at the given time, its location on GPS was checked which revealed it was somewhere in Bareilly, UP,” said the DCP adding, “When they tried to contact at the mobile number given by Rohit Kumar, he didn’t respond. Thereafter, GPS of the said vehicle was tampered. Similarly, three more vehicles were also stolen by the culprits by adopting the same modus operandi.”
A team was immediately constituted and during the course of investigation, they were sent to Bareilly to trace and recover the said vehicles.
The team continued its efforts to track the movement of accused Rohit Kumar but he kept on changing his location frequently. After continous tracking, the team received an input about the accused and after laying a trap, arrested Kumar and recovered the Suzuki swift car from his posession.
Similarly, in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, the team laid another trap and accused Praveen Saxena was arrested and a Honda Amaze car was recovered from his possession.
“During interrogation, accused disclosed to have stole many other luxury cars by adopting the same modus operandi from the car rental companies. Two more luxury cars were recoverd from the accused,” said the police officer.