Interstate gang busted, four arrested along with three luxury vehicles

Greater Noida (IANS) | Busting an inter-state gang of luxury vehicle thefts operating in Delhi NCR, Greater Noida’s Kotwali Beta-2 police have arrested four vicious miscreants. The accused used to do business of buying stolen vehicles at low prices and selling them at high prices in remote areas. Police have also recovered stolen Scorpio, Brezza and Fortuner vehicles, fake number plates, pistol and cartridges from their possession. The police have arrested Mohd Sarfaraz alias Dilshad alias Mulla, Inderjeet, Salahuddin alias Akbar Ali and Mohd Harun. They are members of the Interstate Gang Vehicle Thieves Gang. Three stolen vehicles have been recovered from their possession, which they had stolen from Gurugram and Delhi and had come to Noida to sell.

Additional DCP Ashok Kumar said that on April 8, during checking, the police had arrested Praveen Tyagi with a stolen Fortuner near Dadha Golchakkar in Kotwali Beta-2 area. On the basis of interrogation of Praveen Tyagi, Kotwali Beta police caught Mohammad Sarfaraz alias Dilshad alias Mulla with a stolen Fortuner vehicle on April 10. Sarfaraz told during interrogation that he along with his accomplices Farman and Imran had stolen the Fortuner from Gurugram Haryana and had come to sell the stolen car to his accomplices.

According to Additional DCP, Sarfaraz told that earlier also he along with Imran had stolen many luxury vehicles from Delhi and Haryana and called Haroon, Salahuddin, Inderjeet under Alpha One Metro Station to sell those vehicles. When the police team reached under the Alpha One metro station, they found Harun, Salahuddin and Inderjeet standing in a Brezza vehicle below the metro station. The police arrested him and recovered the stolen vehicle Brezza. Sarfaraz told that the Fortuner vehicle was stolen from Police Station Civil Line Gurugram, Scorpio vehicle from Sector 9 Police Station Gurugram and Brezza vehicle was stolen from Delhi in April. Fake number plates were put on stolen vehicles to protect them from the police. Among the arrested thieves, Sarfaraz is a vicious type of vehicle thief and has gone to jail from Nauchandi and Amroha in Meerut. The police has intensified efforts to arrest the two absconding miscreants of this gang.

–IANS