4 arrested for selling luxury cars using fake documents

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 9

The city police on Tuesday busted a gang of fraudsters who were allegedly involved in sale-purchase of luxury cars using fake documents.

Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said based on a tip-off that a gang was operating to dupe people by selling them luxury cars on fake papers. A special team of CIA-1 launched a crackdown to nab the accused.

He said four members of the gang were arrested by the CIA team, who were identified as Jashandeep Singh, a resident of Tower Enclave, Phase-2; Kamal Gill of Nangalshama; Gaurav, a resident of New Baldev Nagar; and Kanwalpreet Singh of Bhullar Athwal village in Gurdaspur district.

Six luxury cars, two scooters and one smart TV were seized from the accused.

Revealing the modus operandi of the group, Bhullar said, “One of the gang members namely Gaurav was working in a car showroom on Pathankot Road who led the gang into these corrupt practices while accused Kamal Gill was the group leader. He further stated that they had purchased several luxury cars on bank loans based on forged documents and sold these in different states and duped people by selling them mortgaged vehicles at lower prices”.

Subsequently raids were on to arrest another member, Katial, who was the kingpin of this gang.

Bhullar further said the accused had assigned various duties among them as accused Jashandeep used to sell these cars to customers, Kamal Gill prepared fake documents to get bank loan, while Gaurav, who was working at Novelty Ford company, was playing a key role to get the loan sanctioned from banks/finance companies using fake documents, and the fourth accused, Kamalpreet Singh, used to prepare fake documents of recently purchased cars to be able to sell them to new customers at lower prices. A case has been registered against the accused.