India
Delhi Police bust auto theft racket spanning 5 states; 10 held, 31 vehicles recovered
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Delhi Police has busted an organised inter-state auto-lifting syndicate involved in stealing high-end vehicles, tampering with chassis numbers and fraudulently re-registering them using forged documents. Ten key members of the racket have been arrested and 31 stolen luxury vehicles with tampered chassis numbers have been recovered from different states. The syndicate operated across Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh, creating a parallel system to convert stolen vehicles into seemingly legitimate assets.