Merc found abandoned at dera ashram in K’shetra
Vishal Joshi
Tribune News Service
Kurukshetra, August 27
A Mercedes-Benz S-Class car was found abandoned at a Naam Charcha Ghar in Dhurala village.
Priced at around Rs 1 crore, the red car is reportedly ‘gifted’ to the Kurukshetra branch by dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh a few days before his 50th birthday on August 15.
Bought in 2011, the car had logged just 600 km.
The police are investigating if the car was gifted to the dera chief by someone or was it procured from some other source.
Local dera volunteers told the officials that the dera chief used this vehicle for his occasional tours within the dera compound.
Deputy Commissioner Sumedha Kataria said the car had a temporary registration number and the local dera management had failed to produce any document of the vehicle. She said the car had been bought from Chandigarh in the name of Sita Rani, a resident of Sector 22-B.
The DC said they would investigate that how the car was used for six years without being registered.
Police sources said the owner of the car had been traced in Mohali and would be questioned here tomorrow.
