Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 12: Police today busted an interstate gang of vehicle lifters by arresting five persons and recovered nine vehicles from them.
Addressing a press conference, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Central Kashmir, Muhammad Sulaiman Chowdhary said that a reliable information was received that some persons are involved in illegal selling of SUVs and cars in the areas of Narbal, Parimpora at a price much lesser to the actual cost of vehicles by way of luring and duping general public of their legitimate money and selling suspicious stolen vehicles.
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He said that a case (FIR No. 16/2020 under relevant sections of law) was registered at Police Station Parimpora and investigation was taken up.
The DIG said that during the course of investigation, 5 accused were arrested and 9 vehicles were recovered which were stolen from different states of the country. “The vehicles were recovered from different locations of Srinagar, Budgam, Baramulla and Bandipora,” he said.
The arrested persons have been identified as Mohammad Ayub Dar alias Ayub Ganastani resident of Ganastan Sumbal, Mohammad Ayub Khan resident of Gondipora Beerwa, Sameer Ahmad Wani resident of Ohangam Beerwa, Liyaqat Ali Dar resident of Chanabal Pattan and Mohammad Younis Rather resident of Nasrullahpora Budgam. However, one accused identified as Hilal Ahmad Lone resident of Wanigam Pattan is absconding.
The modus operandi of the lifters was to lift these vehicles, identify similar vehicles operating in different parts of country with a genuine owner and get a duplicate registration number plate fixed on these stolen vehicles to make them appear similar to existing registered genuine vehicles so as to misguide the law enforcing agencies as well as general public.
Meanwhile, police appealed the general public not to buy any suspicious vehicles from unauthorized dealers/persons and buy only after proper verification from the Police and RTO’s concerned.
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