Interstate gang of car-lifters busted, one held with 9 cars

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, January 7

The district police busted an interstate gang of vehicle lifters with the arrest of one of its members and seized nine stolen luxury cars from his possession. Jagjit Singh Walia, SP (Investigation), said here on Thursday that the arrested gang member had been identified as Kashmirpal Singh of New Amritsar, while Dharminder Singh Gora of Wara Telian and Bhupinder Singh of Kalsian are still at large.

Walia said Kashmirpal was arrested by a team of the anti-narcotics staff, led by ASI Gurdial Singh, from the Tarn Taran-Chabal road on Wednesday. He said the accused was travelling in a stolen Careta car (PB-11, BN-0077) and could not produce any document related to the car. In the preliminary interrogation, he confessed that he had parked eight more stolen cars (four Brezza, two Careta, one XUV, Swift and Innova) at a dera in Bhaini Gurmukh Singh, which were impounded by the police party, Walia said.

The SP said the gang had stolen cars from Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand etc. and offered people to buy on cheap rates. The police have registered a case under Sections 379 and 411 of the IPC against the gang members, the SP said.

The police are conducting raids to arrest the absconding member. The police said the absconding gang members, Dharminder Singh and Bhupinder Singh, were earlier also arrested by the Sadar police with six stolen cars.