Distt. Police busted a major inter-state racket involving theft of Hyundai cars with the arrest of two persons after recovering six vehicles from them, said  SSP Vivek Sheel Soni  while briefing the media here on Friday.

He said that a police under the supervision of SP (R) Navreet Singh Virk and guidance of DSP Zirakpur Bikramjit Singh Brar and DSP City-1 Harinder Singh Mann, led by SHO Zirakpur Inspector Deepinder Singh along with police officials sucessfully arrested two main inter-state automobile theft accused from near Gazipur Road in case FIR No. 82 dated 12-02-2022 u/s 379 PS- Zirakpur (Mohali)

With the arrest of said accused, a team of Mohali police have traced at least 11 automobile theft cases and 06 vehicles have been recovered which were stolen from District SAS Nagar.

SSP further briefed that during the initial investigation of arrested accused, it has come to light that this gang was involved in the theft of Hyundai cars only i.e. Creta, Verna and i20. This gang has stolen 11 Hyundai cars including 8 from Punjab, 2 from Haryana and 1 from Delhi in the year 2022. In this regard, various FIRs were registered against them.

One of the arrested accused Akil Ahmed s/o Aziz Ahmed r/o 523, Bawni Khera, Distt. Palwal, Haryana (now residing at D2-220, DLF valley Panchkula) is kingpin of this gang. He is M-Tech (Computer science) from AFSET college Fraidabad. He was working as a head of technical unit in Mobile Tower Reliance’s company from 2004-2012 in Gurugram. He was thrown out of the job from the reliance company in the year 2012, reason being he was indulged in selling VIP numbers on higher prices.

One of the arrested accused Akil Ahmed s/o Aziz Ahmed r/o 523, Bawni Khera, Distt. Palwal, Haryana (now residing at D2-220, DLF valley Panchkula) is kingpin of this gang. He is M-Tech (Computer science) from AFSET college Fraidabad. He was working as a head of technical unit in Mobile Tower Reliance’s company from 2004-2012 in Gurugram. He was thrown out of the job from the reliance company in the year 2012, reason being he was indulged in selling VIP numbers on higher prices.

He got involved in illegal mining at Bharatpur, Rajasthan along with his gang members till 2016. He ran his automobile car-sale purchase business till 2021. In December-2021, to make easy money, he entered into criminal activities and started his vehicle theft gang in NCR and Punjab as some of his gang members were earlier involved in heinous crimes in Punjab.

Being a computer engineer, he took only 10-15 minutes to open the lock of Hyundai car as he has expertise in unlocking the Hyundai vehicles. The second arrested accused Shekh Rafiq s/o Shekh Dilwar Mansuri r/o Masjid line, Mosan Ganj, Amravatti, Maharashtra, is in car-sale purchase business for the last 10 years. Shekh Rafiq and one the absconding accused Sonu used to buy vehicles from Akil and his gang members and further sell these stolen cars to different buyers. Further, investigation is in process.

Efforts are being made to arrest other accused and recover more stolen vehicles.