GURUGRAM: One of a duo of high-tech car thieves working in NCR, who was arrested on November 20 and stored in police remand, was produced prior to a city court on Monday that sent him to judicial custody. Police said while they're yet to arrest the mastermind, they've pinned five thefts on the duo, of which two have been in Gurgaon, two in Delhi and one in Faridabad.
Lakhwinder, 32, firstly from Bikaner in Rajasthan, and residing in Delhi's Rohini, was arrested after police sighted him hovering round Subhash Chowk, allegedly to behavior some other robbery. They recovered a WagonR, a Swift Dzire, a Hyundai i20 and a Swift, along with an auto key programmer used to wreck into automobiles to programme a prototype key to start out its engine.
Police said the duo used to buy previous automobiles on OLX for cheap and get them scrapped at a Delhi junkyard, after cutting out their engine and chassis quantity plates. They then positioned equivalent car fashions, stole them the use of the key programmer, and changed the unique engine and chassis plates with ones they had earlier salvaged.
"They then got papers for the cars made in their names and sold them to buyers at attractive rates," said SI Sandeep Kumar of crime unit X, which cracked the case. "So if the price of the car is Rs 8 lakh, they would sell it for Rs 5 lakh. Unwitting customers would buy the cars with registration certificates that matched engine and chassis numbers," he added. Even on-line assessments would flip up the scrapped automobiles, making the robbery untraceable.
The duo is alleged to have bought the key programmer for round Rs 50,000 from an e-tail website online, which is able to these days be delivered in India without any allow or license, police said.
The sale can be initiated by means of word-of-mouth message. Two of their thefts have been traced to Sadar police station and one to Sector 53 police station. "They used to take anywhere between 3-5 days — from conducting a recce to identify a car of the same colour, make and model as the one scrapped — to robbing it," police said.
Cops said Lakhwinder's partner, who has a previous felony record, is absconding. "We'll arrest him soon," said Kumar.
Lakhwinder, 32, firstly from Bikaner in Rajasthan, and residing in Delhi's Rohini, was arrested after police sighted him hovering round Subhash Chowk, allegedly to behavior some other robbery. They recovered a WagonR, a Swift Dzire, a Hyundai i20 and a Swift, along with an auto key programmer used to wreck into automobiles to programme a prototype key to start out its engine.
Police said the duo used to buy previous automobiles on OLX for cheap and get them scrapped at a Delhi junkyard, after cutting out their engine and chassis quantity plates. They then positioned equivalent car fashions, stole them the use of the key programmer, and changed the unique engine and chassis plates with ones they had earlier salvaged.
"They then got papers for the cars made in their names and sold them to buyers at attractive rates," said SI Sandeep Kumar of crime unit X, which cracked the case. "So if the price of the car is Rs 8 lakh, they would sell it for Rs 5 lakh. Unwitting customers would buy the cars with registration certificates that matched engine and chassis numbers," he added. Even on-line assessments would flip up the scrapped automobiles, making the robbery untraceable.
The duo is alleged to have bought the key programmer for round Rs 50,000 from an e-tail website online, which is able to these days be delivered in India without any allow or license, police said.
The sale can be initiated by means of word-of-mouth message. Two of their thefts have been traced to Sadar police station and one to Sector 53 police station. "They used to take anywhere between 3-5 days — from conducting a recce to identify a car of the same colour, make and model as the one scrapped — to robbing it," police said.
Cops said Lakhwinder's partner, who has a previous felony record, is absconding. "We'll arrest him soon," said Kumar.
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