On Wednesday, a 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly selling his used car on an e-commerce site & then stealing the vehicle using its duplicate key from the buyer.
The suspect, Manottam Tyagi who is a native of Amroha, had also fixed a GPS device in the vehicle to trace its movement, the police said, adding that Tyagi had cheated at least 7 people using the same modus operandi in the past 2 years.
Prabhat Dixit, station house officer, Sector 24 Police Station, said that on March 3, 2020, a person named Jite Yadav had filed a complaint of vehicle theft. Yadav said he wanted to buy a used car & he found an advertisement on a website.
Yadav had said in the FIR that “I contacted the seller & fixed a deal for Maruti Swift VXI for Rs 2.60 lakh. The suspect reached Mamura in Sector 66 & handed over the car. However, he withheld the vehicle’s original registration papers & one key".
According to the Police, the suspect had told the victim that the original papers & the second key would be delivered later. Dixit said that Yadav paid Rs 2.10 lakh & said Rs 50,000 will be paid once the papers & key are delivered. Next day, Yadav had parked the car outside his office in Sector 12 when it was stolen.
The SHO said that police received information about movement of the suspect near Greater Noida West. “A police team reached the spot & signalled the suspect to stop for checking. The police found that his vehicle had a doctored number plate. The suspect was arrested when he confessed to have stolen the vehicle,” he said.
During interrogation, the suspect revealed that he had fixed a GPS device in the vehicle.
Tyagi told the Police that “I had traced the vehicle using GPS & then stole it after selling to Yadav".
The Police have recovered the stolen car, 2 mobile phones, 3 fake Aadhar cards, 3 PAN cards & Rs 10,720 in cash from his possession. The suspect was produced in Court & sent to judicial custody.
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