New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday claims to break the automatic lifting gang between countries used to steal high-class cars from the national capital and neighboring countries and sell them in other parts of the northeastern state.
Kingpin from the gang operated from Dubai, a senior officer said.
The people who were arrested were identified as Abid (30), a driver who used to drop stolen cars in Imphal and Siliguri; Sagolsem Johnson Singh (32) who sell vehicles in Imphal; Mohd Asif (33) who run the stolen car racket from Meerut and prepared an aluminum plate which was damaged from the total car losses in the garage; And Salman (30) who receive stolen cars from Asif on Indore and change their chassis and machine numbers.
The police have completed 21 cases and restoring crores worth in all these cases with arrest.
Notifications have also been issued for the Department of Transportation and insurance companies to provide detailed vehicle data from total vehicle losses and details of registration from Manipur and Indore.
According to the police, one Mohammad Ikhlaque reported on October 3 that the day before, he had parked his Fortuner car at Krishna Nagar around 2am and was stolen.
The police received information about a suspect, Abid from above Amroha, and arrested him from Uttam Nagar in Delhi.
He claimed that he was a member of Tarik Satta Gang and was involved in 15 cases, said DCP (southwest) Gaurav Sharma.
“He said he had received a Fortuner from Aamir, Safar and Sikander at the Kashmir gate, and gave him to Singh and Vidyasunder in the direction of his boss of Tarik Satta operating from Dubai,” Sharma said.
Asif, arrested from Meerut, revealed he had received and sold stolen cars to Salman, a dealer at Indore, Sharma added.
With the help of local police at Imphal, Delhi police arrested the main recipient of the stolen car, Singh.
“The arrest caused the recovery of 14 upscale luxury cars from the impighter of the outskirts, which were stolen from all Delhi-NCR,” Sharma said.
Other teams capture Salman from Indore.
“This stolen vehicle is sold as a total vehicle loss for original buyers,” police said.