With arrest of four persons, the Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have solved 34 cases of theft and robbery in Delhi-NCR. Police have recovered seven luxury cars from their possession. The accused used to get the stolen vehicles registered again in Mizoram with tampered engine and chasis numbers and sell the cars as genuine one for a hefty price ranging between Rs 10-15 lakh. The accused have been identified as Amit (27), Pramod Nagar (35), Kasif Raza (32) and Rajesh Singh (43).
“Team of Anti -Auto Theft Squad (AATS) of West District visited several places where incidents took place and analysed the crime pattern. It was found that different gangs with different modus operandi are committing MV thefts. One unique crime pattern of a gang was studied who strike and target high-end vehicles parked outside gyms and fitness centers”, said Monika Bhardwaj, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) West district.
Based on the information collected from the place of occurrence and victims, a trap was laid and accused were arrested. During interrogation one of the accused Pramod disclosed that they used to target the high-end SUVs parked outside gyms and fitness centers. His brother Amit used to steal the original keys and start the vehicle and hand it to him for parking it at a safe place and thereafter on his direction the vehicles were disposed in Sambhal.
“During interrogation the accused revealed that Amit joined a local gym in Ghaziabad for workout and this was place where he found the idea of stealing high-end luxury cars. He observed that people who come for workout keep the keys of their cars in the basket at reception and that basket is left unattended by the receptionist and thus easy to take the keys of the vehicle of his choice,” said the DCP
“During further investigation accused said they used to hand over the cars to Saddam and Sarik, who are absconding but one of the driver Kashif was arrested who disclosed that he on the direction of Saddam he used to take the vehicles for delivery by road to his known receiver Rajesh Singh in Aizawl, Mizoram. Since one year he has supplied more than a dozen vehicles. Earlier he was a truck driver”, the DCP said.
He came to know about Rajesh Singh and his wife Bindoo lama who receives stolen vehicles through Saddam. On his instance receiver Rajesh was also arrested and five more vehicles were recovered which were found stolen from different locations in Delhi.
“Rajesh used to get the stolen vehicles again registered in Mizoram with tampered engine and chasis numbers and sell the cars as genuine for a consideration amount of Rs 10-15 lakhs Further efforts are being made to arrest kingpin Saddam and Sarik and to recover more stolen vehicles,” said the DCP.