The Gurugram police arrested a member of an interstate car lifting gang after a gunfight close to Siddhartheshwar Chowk in Sector 9 at 4.30am on Saturday, police mentioned, including that arms, ammunition and different gear used to steal vehicles had been recovered from the accused.
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The accused was recognized as Sonu (single title), 29, of Jakholi in Kaithal.
Police mentioned that the incident occurred when the Sector 10 crime department unit was checking autos after putting barricades on the chowk. Police signalled an oncoming Hyundai Creta to cease however the automobile accelerated and rammed into the barricades in an try to flee.
The driving force, Sonu, rapidly reversed and the automobile hit head constable Om Prakash, leaving him injured. Sonu stepped out of the car and opened hearth on the police workforce, officers mentioned.
The crime department workforce retaliated and fired two rounds, forcing Sonu to flee, police mentioned. The workforce chased him and arrested him, mentioned Varun Kumar Dahiya, assistant commissioner of police (crime).
Police searched the Creta and located a pistol, two stay cartridges, six engine management modules (ECMs), a key making system, a automobile programming system, a jammer used for deactivating anti-theft alarms put in in vehicles, a chipset, ECM motherboard, 23 automobile keys, three bent steel scales, a screwdriver, eight particular keys to open lug nuts, a tool to smash window glasses, and a telephone, amongst different instances.
“Sonu and his gang members had stolen the Creta from Safdarjung Enclave in Delhi in October. Sonu has told us that his gang had stolen 14 vehicles from Gurugram and 10 from Delhi since July,” Dahiya mentioned.
The gang has a minimum of 5 different members and every has an assigned position of their operation to steal and get rid of vehicles, mentioned police. They’re all on the run.
“Sonu had met the other gang members in Tihar jail, where they were lodged for car thefts. He came out nine months ago. After the others came out on bail, they formed the gang and started lifting cars from various locations across the National Capital Region, selling them in distant states or getting them dismantled at cheap rates,” the ACP mentioned.