Gang member nabbed with 7 stolen dumpers

Tribune News Service

Panipat, April 17

The police have nabbed a member of an inter-state dumper thieves’ gang and recovered seven HIVA dumpers from him.

He was using these stolen vehicles for supplying sand and dust from mining zones for the past two years. Also, a stolen vehicle was impounded by the Mining Department reportedly used for illegal mining.

Superintendent of Poilce Shashank Kumar Sawan said cops nabbed Sandeep of Tamshabad village in the Sanoli area from near Krishi Vigyan Kendra on the Chautala road on April 14.

During the checking of the documents of the vehicle from the dumper, it was found to be belonging to one Suresh Kumar of Hisar district and the chassis number and engine number were found different on the registration card and on the dumper, he added. The police lodged a case against him in the Chandni Bagh police station and took him on a two-day police remand for investigation.

The accused Sandeep revealed that he came in contact of Om Prakash of Dhagana tehsil in Nagor of Rajasthan in January 2018. Om Prakash lured him by saying that he would give him stolen dumpers at a very low cost and would also manage to change the RCs and other documents from Punjab on his (Sandeep’s) name, the SP said. Sandeep revealed that he had bought eight dumpers from him in the past two years which were stolen from various places. It was also revealed that they got the forged documents of these vehicles from Punjab and then they used these in the supply of sand, dust and other building materials and in the mining too.