Gang Sell Stolen Vehicles In Jalandhar, Patiala, Meerut, Busted

The brain behind an inter-state vehicle lifter gang, in which the whole family got involved, has been detained by Gurgaon police on April 24.

The officials have also detained his companion from Kurukshetra and five stolen vehicles have been recovered from him. Three gang members were already arrested and seven vehicles were recovered from them a day before. They have been produced in city court on Wednesday and sent to judicial custody.

The crew was involved in the criminal offense for past 5 years. As per police, the gang-head Ravi, and his companion Raghubeer alo known as Sahil have beenined on Wednesday, whilst other 3 associates got setained on April 15.

As per inspector Anand Kumar, in-charge, crime branch, “This gang was mostly active in the NCR. The gang members sold stolen vehicles in Meerut, Jalandhar, Patiala and other cities. We have recovered two Innova, two Swift cars, two Maruti Ritz, Swift D-zire, Tata Magic, Tavera, Alto, Bolero from the accused. The gang associates purchased the damaged vehicles from insurance firm to temper stolen vehicles engine and changed numbers. After tempering they sold the vehicle easily.”

Rajesh Duggal, DCP (crime) stated, “The head of the gang Ravi has criminal history and his brother-in-law is also involved in the vehicle lifting. The female fellow members also assisted in vehicle stealing. Around 6 months back, he was detained by Delhi police and then once in the year 2008. Raghubir aka Sahil has been reserved in theft and liquor smuggling cases and the other 3 charged Yogesh, Nitin and Rajkumar ran old spares shops in Sirsa together with selling and buying of stolen vehicles.”