4 auto lifters arrested after brief shootout in Delhi’s Mehrauli

“At astir 12:45 am, our squad identified him successful a car on with 3 others. The archetypal squad laid down a trap connected the exit of the locality and the 2nd squad started pursuing his car,” explained DCP Crime Branch Sanjay Sain.

“On seeing Farman’s car coming towards them, our archetypal squad signaled the operator to stop. Sensing constabulary presence, Farman who was sitting successful the co-driver’s seat, opened occurrence astatine the constabulary squad with a pistol and attempted to escape. In response, ASI Jafrudin, who was pursuing the target, changeable astatine the tyre of their car bringing it to a halt. Farman again tried to occurrence his pistol astatine the squad but his cartridges blocked the tube and did not fire,” helium said.

After a scuffle, during which an inspector sustained a insignificant injury, each 4 suspects were arrested.

Police said Farman has been named successful 58 transgression cases, including car theft, robbery, kidnapping, and attempted murder. The different accused, too, person extended transgression records, constabulary said.

“They utilized to roam astir Delhi, UP, and Haryana, looking to bargain cars aft switching disconnected their mobile phones. The pack was utilizing a scanner to decode keys and marque caller keys with the assistance of that. In the past fewer months, the pack stole much than 50 cars from Delhi and adjoining areas and delivered them to their receiver successful Meerut,” said DCP Sain.

Mohsin, progressive successful 27 anterior cases, allegedly helped to decode car keys, portion Sahabzada acted arsenic the getaway operator and Zahid served arsenic the lookout during the thefts, the serviceman said.

The chassis fig of Farman’s car was deliberately altered, constabulary said, adding that they besides recovered modern tools utilized successful the car theft, including physics decoding devices, a drill machine, and a fig sheet punching machine. The stolen vehicles were sold for up to Rs 1.5 lakh each, chiefly successful Meerut, said police.

Police said probe is connected to hint different members of the syndicate, retrieve further stolen vehicles, and place the root of the gang’s weapons.