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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, SEPT. 12. An electronics engineer has been arrested by the New Delhi police for his alleged involvement in a car theft racket. The police have launched a hunt for the brain behind the racket. On September 4, the police received a call from Jaswinder Singh, a resident of Rajouri Garden, informing that he had detained two persons, Anand Jamwal and Anil Khanna, who were trying to sell him a Ford Ikon having a fake registration number. Mr. Singh had already paid Rs. 3.2 lakhs to them but when he enquired from the showroom from where the vehicle had been purportedly bought, he found that the one being sold to him had fake registration certificate. Mr. Singh then asked Anand and Anil to collect the remaining amount of Rs. 25,000 at his shop in Chanakyapuri, detained them there and subsequently informed the police. Acting on the call, a police team reached the shop but by then Anil had fled from the scene. During interrogation, Anand revealed that he was a native of Jammu and Kashmir and had done electronic engineering from Amritsar Regional College of Engineering. He was working in South City Ford showroom on Mathura Road where he met Anil around 10 months ago. The two became friends and started living in a paying guest accommodation. Later Anand came to know that Anil's real name was Sharif and that he was a resident of Rampur in Uttar Pradesh. Anand told the police that on several occasions, he and Anil bought expensive vehicles from Delhi showrooms on loans. After paying one or two instalments, they would stop the payment and subsequently sell the vehicles to the third party by forging no-objection certificates purportedly issued from the money lending agency and the showroom from where the vehicles were purchased. Anand disclosed that he used to forge the documents. In some cases, the accused managed to get the vehicles registered with the Uttar Pradesh transport authorities through fraudulent means. The police suspect that when the transport department would send letters to the authorities concerned to check whether the vehicles were clean, the accused would intercept the letters and send forged replies. Failing to dispose of some expensive vehicles, they also supplied several vehicles to travel agencies. So far, the police have been able to connect six such vehicles.
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