Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 2: Police today said its anti-car theft squad formed recently in Hazratbal zone of the city have busted a car lifters gang and recovered stolen vehicles.
A police spokesman said: “Working on different leads the squad detained three car lifters who were identified as Tanveer Ahmad Sheikh, Irshad Ahmad Dar and Asif Shafi.” The spokesman said on sustained questioning and investigations, the accused persons admitted to have lifted various vehicles from different locations of Srinagar city.
“On their disclosure five vehicles including two Alto (K-10) cars, a Wagon-R car, a Maruti 800 car and a Tavera vehicle were recovered. Apart from this, spare parts of various stolen vehicles including ten engines of two Tavera vehicles, three Alto cars, two Maruti cars, two Tata 207 vehicles and a Maruti Swift car were also recovered on the instance of accused persons from the workshops of Irshad Ahmad Bhat at Batwara and Irshad Ahmad at Saidakadal.
The police spokesman said further investigation is going on in this regard.
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