Inter-state vehicle thieves’ gang busted

Our Correspondent

Mukerian (Hoshiarpur), October 13

The district police have nabbed four members of a vehicle thief gang and recovered 20 stolen two-wheelers from them.

The police said during primary investigation, it had come out that the gang had stolen the two-wheelers from various parts of Punjab and Chandigarh.

SSP Elanchezhian Jayabalan said the Mukerian police had received information that a vehicle thief gang had hidden some stolen vehicles at an abandoned Gujjar Dera on the road going from Medinipur to Mansoorpur. Based on this information, a police party, led by Supritendent of Police (Investigation) HS Mandher, DSP Mukerian Ravinder Singh and station house officer of the Mukerian police station Karnail Singh conducted a raid at the said place.

During the raid, 17 motorcycles of different make and three scooters were recovered from the place. Four accused were also arrested. They were identified as Gopal and Pawan Kumar, residents of Naushehra Pattan village in Mukerian, Hemant Sharma, a resident of Jhula Mahal, and Rohit Kumar, a resident of Gurdaspur.

The police said in the preliminary investigation, the accused had confessed that they used to steal vehicles from different places and then sell these by making fake registration certificates. 

To sell the stolen vehicles, they posed as employees of a finance company and told the buyers that these vehicles were those recovered against the loans not paid by borrowers.

An FIR under Sections 379, 420 468, 465, 471 and 411 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been lodged against all four accused. 

They would be produced before the court tomorrow and the police would be seeking their remand for more recoveries to be made from them.