Techie nabbed with nine stolen vehicles

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 28

A notorious vehicle thief has been nabbed by the crime branch of the UT police.

ASIs Ashok Kumar and Kanwalpal arrested the suspect, identified as Harpreet Singh, alias Smarty, from Chandan Vihar, Delhi.

A total of nine vehicles, including a Jeep Compass, Innova, three Creta, one Brezza, a Swift, an i20 and an Esteem, valued around Rs1.07 crore, have been recovered from him.

Harpreet is a BTech in computer science and has been stealing high-end cars. The stolen vehicles are further sold to scrap dealers in Uttar Pradesh at throwaway prices.

The police said Harpreet had a tainted past and was arrested by the police of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi in vehicle theft cases many times. Presently, six cases of vehicle thefts are already under trial in a local court. In one of the cases, he has been declared a proclaimed offender.

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