With the arrest of five perpeople, the Delhi Police has busted a gang of auto-lifters and recovered 30 cars including 20 luxurious cars. They used to purchase damaged cars from auctions, attain the original documents, sell them to scrap dealers, steal the similar car from Delhi-NCR, exchanged the chassis number and sell it to other clients. The accused people have been identified as Sanjay Singh (39), Mobin Ahmed (34), Salim (30), Mannan (32) and Kasim (30).
“The accused used to purchase damaged cars from insurance companies in auction ranging from Rs 5 lakh to 15 lakh. Further they also attain the original documents including the RC of the car. They then sell the damaged cars to local scrap dealers but retain all the documents including registration number and RC. In the process of selling the damaged car to the scrap dealer, they used to save around Rs 5,000 to Rs 15,000 per car, “ said Ishwar Singh, DCP, South district.
They then contact the auto-lifters and instruct them to lift a particular car that they have sold off to the scrap dealer. Once, they steal the car from Delhi-NCR, they change the registration and engine number with that mentioned in the original documents of the damaged car. Further, after giving re-birth to the damaged car, they sell if off to the clients.
On August 10, Sanjay Singh and Mobin Ahmed were arrested with a stolen Fortuner having tampered engine / chassis numbers.