car-lift gang busted in Jamshedpur, 4 held

Four members of an inter-state four-wheeler lifting gang were arrested and seven vehicles stolen from various parts of the country and sold here recovered from the steel city, police today said.
Acting on a information that the gang members were driving away a stolen car from Birsanagar police station area of the city to the Industrial township of Adityapur in adjoining Seraikela-Kharswan district last evening, the East Singhbhum district police launched a massive vehicle search operation in Golmuri round-about, Senior Superintendent of Police, Anoop T Mathew said.
Mathew said three persons in a white car tried to flee on seeing the police team but were caught following a chase.

On verifying the documents of the vehicle, he said the registration number of the vehicle did not match with that of the document, which alerted the police.
The arrested persons Sunil Kumar Singh, a resident of Birsanagar, Tinku Das of Sidgora police station limit and Vinay Mishra of Telco colony have admitted that they have stolen the car to sell it in Adityapur.
Further police interrogation with the arrested persons have led police to apprehend one Manish Agarwal, a resident of Bhalubasa under Sitaramdera police station here, he said adding that Manish, who owned a cyber cafe, was expert in making fake documents including adhar card, driving licenses, PAN cards, Voter ID cards and fake vehicle documents, which were seized in large number.

Manish along with Das with the help of their fake adhar card used to trap customers for selling the stolen vehicles, he said adding a large number of fake adhar cards and the computer set used to prepare such documents were also recovered from Manish.