Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
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he High grounds police have busted a gang and arrested a gang of six who were stealing high end cards from other metro cities and selling it through second hand car dealers after forging the documents and registration number plates .
The accused have been identified as Naseeb Abdul Razaq, 38,a notorious car lifter and his associates Manjunath,45,Shabaz Khan,31,Syed Riyaz,34,Nayaz Khan, 32 and Imran Sheikh Ismail, 34.
The gang was exposed by chance in February after Personal Assistant of Member of Legislative Assembly, Bhojegowda’s SUV was parked in front of a second car dealer office up for sale .
After confirming that the car was on sale,he alerted the high grounds police suspecting some racket.
Based on the complaint, the police detained the car dealer which led to the arrest of the gang and recovered 8 SUVs from them worth three crore .
The accused would steal expensive cars from other metro cities and bring into the city to create fake documents and registration number plates and give it to the second hand car dealers to sell and get them money. The dealers would get a commission for selling the car.
The police have taken the gang into custody to ascertain their criminal network and also possible involement in other cases .
