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DELHI POLICE CRIME BRANCH 02.08.2023 PRESS RELEASE NOTORIOUS INTER-STATE GANG OF AUTO LIFTERS OF LUXURY CARS BUSTED BY CRIME BRANCH  14 ACCUSED PERSONS ARRESTED  25 STOLEN LUXURY CARS WORTH MORE THAN 13 CRORES RECOVERED  16 TAMPERED ENGINES RECOVERED  38 CASES OF AUTO THEFT WORKED OUT  18 FAKE NUMBER PLATES, 6 FORGED REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES RECOVERED  ARTICLES USED IN MAKING FORGED HIGH SECURITY NUMBER PLATES SEIZED  INTER STATE NEXUS BUSTED BY TEAMS CONDUCTING RAIDS ACROSS INDIA (NCR, PUNJAB, UTTAR PRADESH, WEST BENGAL, MANIPUR, MAHARASHTRA, GOA, TELANGANA, TAMILNADU, KARNATAKA, ETC.)  CRIME SYNDICATE THRIVES ON ‘LOW RISK, HIGH RETURN’ CRIME INTRODUCTION: While analysing the crime trends of thefts of high end luxury cars by senior formations of the Crime Branch of Delhi Police, it was observed that Toyota Cars – Fortuners/ Innova Crysta are mostly targeted by auto lifters. Accordingly, DCP Satish Kumar was directed to deploy his teams from Eastern Range-I and Western Range-I to study the pattern at receivers end to bust the organised syndicate dealing in these highly valuable cars. Accordingly, teams of Eastern Range-I and Western Range-I under the guidance of DCP Satish Kumar developed information after hectic analysis of GPS data/CDR/Dump Data and human surveillance feedback. Both the teams in co-ordination with each other developed specific inputs about stolen luxury cars going to Southern, Western and North- Western parts of India. The efforts succeeded and the team of Eastern Range-I/Crime Branch busted a gang involved in receiving and selling of stolen luxury cars from Delhi to Western and Southern parts of India and subsequently arrested 07 buyers/sellers of stolen vehicles and 18 stolen luxury vehicle, 18 fake number plates & 6 forged registration certificates were seized from Goa, Mumbai, Pune & Hyderabad. Similarly, the team of Western Range-I/Crime Branch busted an auto lifter gang active in Delhi/NCR area and arrested 07 accused persons including 02 auto lifters, 01 maker of forged high security number plates, 01 mechanic and 03 buyers/seller of stolen vehicles. O7 stolen vehicle, 16 tampered engines, forged high security numbers plates, forged high security holograms, IND stickers and articles used for making forged number plates were seized from Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh & Haryana.