NEW DELHI: A team of Delhi Police Crime Branch has busted an inter-state gang of notorious auto lifters operating in Delhi, Haryana, Gujrat, Punjab, Rajasthan and North-East region with the arrest of five gang members on Friday.
Police claimed that they have solved close to 50 cases of luxurious cars theft with the arrest in the city.
Moreover, 28 stolen luxurious cars have been recovered.
The arrested gang members were identified as Narender Singh (resident of Rohtak, Haryana) Lal Bahadur (resident of Rohtak, Haryana), Sharik, (resident of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh), Sonu, (resident of Karnal, Haryana) and Vijay Dahiya alias Johny (resident of Rohtak, Haryana).
Police claimed that the unique modus operandi of the gang was rather simple: stolen cars would transported to Nagaland through containers from Haryana.
The accused persons were found in possession of one white colour Scorpio car on 15 December, having fake Haryana number plate.
The car was found stolen on November 20 from Hari Nagar, Delhi. All accused were nabbed by a Crime Branch team.
During interrogation, it was found that accused Narender used the documents of Scorpio Car earlier owned by him to legitimise a stolen car.
"Sonu used to work as a mechanic with registered Maruti workshops at Panipat and Karnal, Haryana and during this he became familiar with the mechanism of the Maruti cars and started committing theft of cars from Delhi and NCR region," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rajesh Deo.
He also purchased expensive Code-Decode Scanner, ECM and BCM.
Sonu is proficient in opening locked car and he used to dispose the stolen vehicles by implanting the documents of total loss accidental vehicles.
He also supplied these vehicles to car dealers in Haryana and Delhi as second hand vehicles. Narender and Vijay were prime receivers of expensive stolen vehicles.
They transported the stolen vehicles to Nagaland through transport containers.
The accused Sariq and Lal Bahadur also worked with them as carriers to transport the vehicles to Nagaland.