Mangaluru, Mar 23: Police have busted a vehicle theft racket by arrest four men and seized five cars valued at Rs 50 lakh from their possession.
The operation was carried out by the sleuths of the City Crime Branch (CCB), along with personnel of the Mulki police station on Thursday.
T R Suresh, Commissioner of Mangaluru City police told media persons that the arrests were carried out based on definite information about the gang’s presence in the Mulki police station limits.
Police made the breakthrough with the arrest of Fayaz (34) who was spotted driving a car that was reportedly stolen from Ullal police station limits, earlier this month, during checking at Bappanadu check post.
Based on information provided by Fayaz, police zeroed in on three other accused at Mukka under Surathkal police station limits, and seized four cars, which were allegedly stolen by them. Fayaz of Ballari is part of a notorious fake RC racket operated by Kukkaje Abubakkar Sadiq.
The other accused are Rohan Shailesh D’Souza (31) of Ullal in Mangaluru taluk, David Clinton (22) of Rayee village in Bantwal taluk and Eesa Roshan (37) of Valencia in Mangaluru. Suresh said cases of cheating have been registered against these three accused in Ullal and Panambur police stations.
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