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Auto-lifters arrested

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JULY 11. A government school teacher from Uttaranchal, who was allegedly leading a gang of auto-lifters active in the Capital, has been arrested by the North Delhi police. The police have arrested seven other members of the gang and also recovered 10 stolen motorcycles from them.

Following a tip-off about a gang involved in stealing vehicles and selling them on the basis of forged registration papers, the North Delhi police had arrested two persons, Rakesh Singh Bhandari and Parveen Kumar Sharma - both residents of Burari in North Delhi - on July 4. They were arrested from outside McDonald restaurant at Kashmere Gate when they were riding a stolen motorcycle. The accused also told the police that the registration number on the stolen motorcycle was that of another motorcycle which they had stolen from Nizamuddin in South Delhi in December last year.

They told the police that one more stolen motorcycle was at their residence and that they had given two stolen motorcycles to their associates, Rajesh Kumar and Rajesh `Raju'. Subsequently, both were arrested and the two motorcycles recovered from their possession.

Rakesh also told the police that they had given three stolen motorcycles to Rajender Singh alias Guruji, a teacher in a government school at Dehra Dun in Uttaranchal, to sell it further. The police subsequently arrested Rajender Singh and recovered three stolen motorcycles.

Two more persons, Madan Singh and Jat Singh, both Dehra Dun residents and acquaintances of Rajender Singh, were also arrested and three stolen motorcycles recovered from them. It came to light that Rakesh, Parveen and Rajesh alias Raju used to steal motorcycles parked around office complexes in the afternoon. They used to open the locks of the motorcycles with a master key given to them by Rajender. After stealing the vehicles, they used to change their registration number plates. Parveen, well versed with computer technology, then used to print fake registration certificates for selling them further.

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