Recover 42 stolen vehicles from gang
Chandigarh, October 7
The UT police today busted an inter-state gang comprising vehicle lifters, scrap dealers, insurance company surveyors and second-hand car dealers which adopted a peculiar modus operandi of selling off stolen vehicles with the original documents of vehicles damaged in accidents. The police recovered a total of 42 vehicles, including high-end cars and SUVs worth over Rs 2 crore, following the arrest of five of an unknown number of gang members.
The 42 vehicles included a Mitsubishi Pajero, two Toyota Innovas, five Mahindra Scorpios, four Tata Safaris, three Mahindra Baleros, three Hyundai Vernas, two Chevrolet Taveras, four Maruti Swifts, three Tata Indigos, two Maruti Wagon Rs, four Maruti Zens, two Hyundai Santros, three Maruti-800s, two Tata Indicas and one Hyundai i 20 and Maruti Alto each.
The arrested members of the gang were identified as Harinder Singh, alias Goldy, a second-hand car dealer, Vipin Kumar, a scrap dealer
and his accomplices Mohammed Nadeem, Mohammed Amir and Kasim. At least three accomplices of the arrested accused identified as Kala, a resident of Meerut, and Kamal and Iqbal, both belonging to Muradabad, are absconding.
The police said car dealer Harinder used to sell second-hand cars in the tricity at the second-hand car market in Sector 7 every Sunday. All 42 cars have been recovered from the purchasers who had bought the cars from the city’s second-hand car market who were ignorant of the fact that they had bought stolen vehicles with documents belonging to an altogether other vehicle.
The police has managed to trace only two vehicles out of the total 42, which were stolen from Chandigarh. In all, the police has managed to trace from where 11 of the 42 vehicles had originally been stolen from. Investigations are on to ascertain from where the rest of the cars had been stolen.
Terming it as a deep nexus among vehicle thieves, scrap dealers, insurance company agents and second-hand car dealers, UT SSP Naunihal Singh said the accused used to sell off the stolen vehicles in car bazaars of various states after pasting number plates, chassis and engine numbers of those vehicles, which had been completely damaged in accidents.
Chandigarh, October 7
The UT police today busted an inter-state gang comprising vehicle lifters, scrap dealers, insurance company surveyors and second-hand car dealers which adopted a peculiar modus operandi of selling off stolen vehicles with the original documents of vehicles damaged in accidents. The police recovered a total of 42 vehicles, including high-end cars and SUVs worth over Rs 2 crore, following the arrest of five of an unknown number of gang members.
The 42 vehicles included a Mitsubishi Pajero, two Toyota Innovas, five Mahindra Scorpios, four Tata Safaris, three Mahindra Baleros, three Hyundai Vernas, two Chevrolet Taveras, four Maruti Swifts, three Tata Indigos, two Maruti Wagon Rs, four Maruti Zens, two Hyundai Santros, three Maruti-800s, two Tata Indicas and one Hyundai i 20 and Maruti Alto each.
The arrested members of the gang were identified as Harinder Singh, alias Goldy, a second-hand car dealer, Vipin Kumar, a scrap dealer
and his accomplices Mohammed Nadeem, Mohammed Amir and Kasim. At least three accomplices of the arrested accused identified as Kala, a resident of Meerut, and Kamal and Iqbal, both belonging to Muradabad, are absconding.
The police said car dealer Harinder used to sell second-hand cars in the tricity at the second-hand car market in Sector 7 every Sunday. All 42 cars have been recovered from the purchasers who had bought the cars from the city’s second-hand car market who were ignorant of the fact that they had bought stolen vehicles with documents belonging to an altogether other vehicle.
The police has managed to trace only two vehicles out of the total 42, which were stolen from Chandigarh. In all, the police has managed to trace from where 11 of the 42 vehicles had originally been stolen from. Investigations are on to ascertain from where the rest of the cars had been stolen.
Terming it as a deep nexus among vehicle thieves, scrap dealers, insurance company agents and second-hand car dealers, UT SSP Naunihal Singh said the accused used to sell off the stolen vehicles in car bazaars of various states after pasting number plates, chassis and engine numbers of those vehicles, which had been completely damaged in accidents.
Modus operandi
- Scrap dealer Vipin and his accomplices used to purchase vehicles damaged in accidents from either the owner of the vehicles with the help of a surveyor or in auctions/direct sale of accidental total loss vehicles from insurance companies
- They would then either steal or get stolen vehicles from other accomplices
- Would either punch the chassis number and engine number of the accident vehicle on the stolen vehicle or cut the plate bearing these numbers and fix the same on stolen vehicles in Meerut
- Would sell these converted stolen vehicles to innocent people as genuine vehicles in the open market
Police yet to nab any thief
Even though the police has arrested five persons involved in the racket, it is yet to arrest any vehicle thief who stole the cars and then sold these off to car dealers with documents of accident vehicles. The police said the case was at an initial stage and there was still plenty to unfold in the coming days, as the gang was large and more arrests were likely in the coming days
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