Ludhiana: Police have arrested car thieves and seized 16 vehicles stolen by them. The accused were identified as Amanpreet Singh of Karnail Singh Phase 2 on Pakhowal Road, Micky Sawhney of Sector 32 on Chandigarh Road, Rohan of Delhi and Laddi of Jalandhar.
Police officials said on a tip-off that the accused were into stolen cars trade, they had raided the accused and arrested them after finding stolen vehicles in their possession. A case was registered against them under sections 379 (theft), 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record), 473 (making or possessing counterfeit seal, etc., with intent to commit forgery punishable otherwise), 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC on Wednesday.
According to sub-inspector Avtar Singh, Amanpreet posed himself as school teacher and has similar cases against him in the past. He would buy documents of total loss vehicles from insurance companies, which were sold in the scrap, and use them while selling off the stolen vehicles. His accomplice Rohan would steal vehicles of same models, while Laddi was skilled at sawing off engine and chassis numbers. Police said after tampering with the engine and chassis numbers of stolen vehicles, the accused sold them using fake documents.