Mangaluru: Kapu Police bust vehicle theft racket, arrests four, recovers 11 vehicles
Mangaluru: Kapu Police on Tuesday arrested four people of a gang that had been operating in the state stealing vehicles and had been selling it in Tamil Nadu.
Police also seized 11 vehicles worth 25 lakh rupees from the four.
Karkala Sub-division Assistant Superintendent of Police K Krishnakanth while addressing a press conference after the arrests, added that the police seized vehicles worth 23,75000 from the accused.
The accused have been identified as Syed Mehboob Pasbay (57), Syed Mazhar Pasha (23) both residents of Shivamogga along with Ilyas aka Babu (58) of Chikkamagaluru and Ziya-ul-Haq (37) of Tamil Nadu.
A team of police was formed led by Kapu Circle Inspector to investigate the case of theft of a Bolero car that was parked near Balaji traders in Kundapur Police Station and a Mahindra Pickup near Katpadi Kallapu under Kapu Police Station.
During the investigation the police team received a tip off about the gang recently operating in Coastal Karnataka.
On June 20 the four were arrested while travelling on a Indica car at Katpadi checkpost. On being asked to provide documents of the car, the gang reportedly failed to provide documents after which they were taken into custody on suspicion.
The gang then confessed to the thefts they have committed during the questioning.
The police then recovered stolen vehicles from Ilyas Haq's scrap store in Coimbatore.
The confiscated vehicles belonged to the cases registered under Kaup, Shimoga, Doddapete, Thirthahalli and kundapura jurisdiction. The vehicles include four Bolero Pickup, five Ashok Leyland, 1 Qualis car. Along with that the police has also confiscated duplicate keys, five mobile, fake number plates along with the vehicle used for theft from the accused, revealed the officials
Syed Mehboob Pasha and Syed Mazhar Pasha used steal the vehicles in various districts with the help of duplicate keys and fake number plates and sell it out to Iliyas and Ziya-ul-Haq. Mazhar Pasha has served his jail sentence for two cases registered in Santhebennur police station in Davanagere. Mehboob has served a jail sentence for sandalwood theft in Bhadravathi. Mehboob and Mazhar were involved in many vehicle theft cases according to the police.
The stolen vehicles were then sold in Tamilnadu and other states by Iliyas aka Babu. He was also involved in sandalwood and other theft cases. Ziya-ul-Haq used to change number plate, engine number, chassis number paint of the stolen vehicles and sell them, the police said
Police officials also stated that he was involved in vehicle interstate vehicle theft racket.
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Fire in coach of New Delhi-Chennai express train; no casualty
Nagpur (PTI): A coach of the New Delhi-Chennai Grant Trunk Express caught fire in Maharashtra's Wardha district on Tuesday morning, railway officials said.
There were no casualties, they said.
Train 12616 New Delhi-Chennai (Tambaram) Grant Trunk Express left from Nagpur in the morning. While it was heading towards Sindi railway station in Wardha, smoke was detected in the last guard coach of the train at 11.09 am, Central Railway spokesperson Sanjay Muley told PTI.
The train was stopped on the Sindi-Tuljapur section, the affected coach was detached immediately, and the fire brigade was called, he said.
All passengers in the train and the coach concerned were safe, the official said.
The cause of the fire will be known after a detailed investigation.
The train will resume its journey in some time without the affected coach, the official added.
