Luxury cars theft: Company staff come under police scanner

Less than 24 hours after seven luxury cars were stolen from an automobile company godown at Manapakkam, the police obtained vital clues related to the culprits involved.

The police managed to recover six vehicles and it may be recalled that five cars were recovered just hours after the crime.

The police are in the process of verifying the evidence from the footage grabbed from CCTV cameras affixed at the spot where the suspects allegedly purchased fake number plates.

The investigation team is now convinced of complicity of employees of the auto company, as the act would be impossible to pull off otherwise.

The incident seems to have occurred within days after the godown was shifted to its present location from Ramapuram.

The fake number plates too, were reportedly fixed only in some of the cars, suggesting that the gang, having decided it was too late to save all the seven-looted cars, subsequently abandoned five of them in Valasarawakkam.

According to police sources, they have traced one more of the car at Ashtalakshmi Nagar 16th Street, Maduravoyal, which was identified by company officials. An inquiry with suspects is underway, they added.

Refusing to divulge more information as it may affect the investigation, the police official said that case was being pursued with the available leads and more arrests could be expected soon, and added that the culprits do not come across as professionals, as the five cars were abandoned at the same spot on Wednesday itself.