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Engineer held for vehicles theft

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A postgraduate in engineering with an MBA degree has been arrested along with four of his accomplices by the Delhi police on charges of vehicle theft.

The police claim to have recovered six luxury cars and five motorcycles from them.

In view of the growing number of cases wherein vehicles were stolen and disposed of after their engine and chassis numbers were changed, the New Friends Colony police in South Delhi were asked to investigate. They soon learnt that a gang of thieves from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh was disposing of stolen cars and motorcycles in Ludhiana by employing a similar modus operandi.

A police team was despatched to Ludhiana to develop the inputs. The police arrested one of the alleged gang members, later identified as Shahnawaz Ahmad. During interrogation, he allegedly disclosed that he worked for Vineet Vashisht, a 27-year-old mechanical engineer who lived in a posh locality in Ludhiana. At his instance, the police mounted a raid and arrested Vineet.

They recovered a motorcycle stolen from Zakir Nagar in South Delhi and four luxury cars from his bungalow.

The police also found drillers, grinders, rivet-punching machine plates, dye machines of numbers and other instruments used to tamper with the engine and chassis numbers of vehicles. At Vineet's instance, the police recovered a Cheverlet Optra car, an engine of a motorcycle and another set of implements used to tamper with the engine and chassis numbers of vehicles from his Nizamuddin West bungalow.

The police arrested the other three accused, Naushad, Talib and Tehseen, and recovered other stolen vehicles.

During interrogation, Shahnawaz, Naushad, Tehseen and Talib purportedly told the police that they used to steal vehicles from different parts of Delhi.

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