Summary:
Thane, Dec 6 (PTI) With the arrest of three persons, the Navi Mumbai police on Monday claimed to have busted an inter-state racket involved in selling stolen high-end cars, a top officer said.
Addressing a press conference, Navi Mumbai police commissioner Bipin Kumar Singh said the police also seized nine expensive cars worth Rs 1.16 crore.
He said the gang members used to steal cars from Mumbai, Delhi and Pune and sell them to customers by tampering with the chassis and engine numbers, RC books.
The accused used details of the cars on which insurance claims had already been made to mislead the customers.
The investigation revealed that the gang members also changed the ECM system of the stolen cars.
The accused trio is identified as Dinesh Umashankar Gupta (35), Furkhan Mazid Shaikh (45) and Dabalsab Husseinsab Kala alias Samir (36), all residents of Navi Mumbai and Mumbai.