SATISH HANDA

Sector 31 police station Chandigarh on a clue stopped a white luxury car having registration number HR15E-8648 on dividing road at Industrial Area Phase II near Tribune crossing and while checking documents suspected fake papers, engine and chasis number. The driver was identified as Ramesh (39) resident of village Sisirkhan in Rohtak district. During preliminary investigation, he admitted that the car was stolen from Delhi and its actual registration number was DL08CAM-0936, both engine and chasis numbers were found tampered, changed. Ramesh admitted that he along with his friend Amit (37) resident of Ward Number 5 Rohtak was purchasing brand new stolen cars from a racket of eight persons at Meerut involved in lifting cars at Delhi and Punjab. On the information of Ramesh police arrested his accomplish Amit immediately and a case was registered against both under sections 423, 467, 468, 471, 473, 484, 411, 201, 120B IPC. Both were produced in the court and remanded to police custody till June 12, 2020.

During police remand, both Ramesh and Amit disclosed that they were buying new luxury stolen cars from the racket at the price ranging between Rs 5 to 7 lakh each and selling to customers at the price ranging between Rs 10 to 25 lakh each after changing engine and chasis numbers on the basis of fake documents getting prepared with the help of staff of registration and licensing authority office at Charkhi Dadri and Meham in Haryana. Rajdeep Singh in-charge police station told that both Ramesh and Amit were selling stolen vehicles to customers at Rohtak, Jind, Bhiwani and Hisar. He said, police is trying to arrest all eight members of racket used to lift vehicles. He told that among 17 vehicles recovered by the police include seven Fortune, five Creta, three Inova and two Breza cars.