Chandigarh Police arrest 2 involved in vehicle-theft racket; find stolen SUVs worth Rs 3 crore

Tribune News Service 
Chandigarh, June 8

Chandigarh Police claim they found 18 SUVs from two people involved in reselling stolen vehicles.

Police say their recoveries included eight Toyota Fortuners and were worth Rs 3 crore in total.

A suspect they identified only as 39-year-old Ramesh was arrested with a stolen Hyundai Creta. Police soon found that the vehicle had been stolen from Delhi, and that it had a fake chassis and engine number.

Ramesh then led to the second suspect police identified as Amit Kumar alias Sabhu (37).

Police said the duo would buy stolen SUVs from carjackers in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut and then have RCs made from registration authorities in Haryana for reselling the vehicle.

The duo’s arrest led police to track down 18 SUVs---besides eight Fortuners, they also found three Innovas, five Hyundai Creta and two Maruti Breezas---from the people to whom the suspects had sold the vehicles.