With the help of Global Positioning System (GPS), Southeast district police succeeded in cracking a vehicle theft case 20 hours after the incident by arresting two men who had stolen a car parked in front of a hotel near the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station, police said on Monday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Chinmoy Biswal said two men have been identified as Balwinder Singh (20) and lav Raghav (21) and are residents of Malviya Nagar area.
The stolen Honda City car and a motorcycle was recovered from them, the DCP said.
On July 6, a complaint was filed by a person called Ajay Arya, a car driver, that his white Honda City car was stolen on July 5 just from the front of Rajdoot Hotel, where it was parked, Biswal said.
“With the help of the GPS installed in the car, police tracked the its location. The car was found parked abandoned in front of the Nathu Sweets in Ghaziabad's Khoda colony in Makanpur,” he said.
“A trap was laid and one of the accused Balwinder, was first arrested when he had come to open the car,” the officer added.
later, his accomplice lav was also arrested from south west Delhi's Mahipalpur, he said.
During interrogation, the two accused revealed that they were neighbours and in order to earn quick money and lead a lavish life, they began stealing vehicles and selling them in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
The accused said they conducted recce in late evening hours and targeted the car parked. They knew if they kept the car with them, police could nab them, they told police. “So, after stealing the car, they parked it outside Nathu Sweets in Khada Colony, Ghaziabad, and returned home in a cab,” they said.
Next day, when the accused went to take the car to sell it to a contact in Uttar Pradesh, the accused was arrested, he added.