Shillong, Aug 29 : Strange though it may seem, car lifters in the Northeast have formed an association - Motor Vehicle Kidnapping Association - setting the police on its trail.
The association with its headquarters in Shillong is spread all over the Northeast including Ladrymbai, Karimganj, Silchar, Tezpur, Hojai, Nagoan, Patharkandi, Anitpur, Ratabari and parts of Mizoram, superintendent of police M K Singh said.
Before the police began its search for the car thieves, it was the Khasi Students Union which carried out overnight raids at Ladrymbai and Khliehriat in the Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya last Monday and apprehended six of them.
They were handed over to the police. The very next day the police arrested the main gang leader Abdul Fateh.
Mobile phones, daggers and a piece of paper, inscribed with the name of the association, were seized from the possession of the gang-members who were identified as Lias Mia, Govin Chetri, Sunil Barman and Pradip Kalita all from Assam, Sonu Tamang Nongrum of Pynursla and Plom Bareh of Mynkre, Khliehriat Pohsh Nong.
Lias Mia is reported to have confessed that one Abdul Pate alias Lambu from Silchar was heading the group and activities in Jaintia Hills were being controlled by one John Lyngdoh alias ‘Boss’.
Singh said the gang has confessed to have lifted at least six cars from the district alone.
Revealing the modus operandi of the gang: Singh said quoting one of the arrested Plom that the vehicles after being stolen were rushed to a petrol pump at Mynkre where a group from Silchar took over after paying commission to the group in Jaintia Hills.
A second group then drove the stolen vehicles to Shillong. From there another group took them to Tezpur and later to Nagaland and other parts of the Northeast, Plom divulged.
The Jaintia Hills group usually received Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000 per stolen vehicle as “commission” which was later divided among the members.
The superintendent of police said more arrests of the members of the association were on cards as police were carrying out raids acting of revelations from the members.
The association with its headquarters in Shillong is spread all over the Northeast including Ladrymbai, Karimganj, Silchar, Tezpur, Hojai, Nagoan, Patharkandi, Anitpur, Ratabari and parts of Mizoram, superintendent of police M K Singh said.
Before the police began its search for the car thieves, it was the Khasi Students Union which carried out overnight raids at Ladrymbai and Khliehriat in the Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya last Monday and apprehended six of them.
They were handed over to the police. The very next day the police arrested the main gang leader Abdul Fateh.
Mobile phones, daggers and a piece of paper, inscribed with the name of the association, were seized from the possession of the gang-members who were identified as Lias Mia, Govin Chetri, Sunil Barman and Pradip Kalita all from Assam, Sonu Tamang Nongrum of Pynursla and Plom Bareh of Mynkre, Khliehriat Pohsh Nong.
Lias Mia is reported to have confessed that one Abdul Pate alias Lambu from Silchar was heading the group and activities in Jaintia Hills were being controlled by one John Lyngdoh alias ‘Boss’.
Singh said the gang has confessed to have lifted at least six cars from the district alone.
Revealing the modus operandi of the gang: Singh said quoting one of the arrested Plom that the vehicles after being stolen were rushed to a petrol pump at Mynkre where a group from Silchar took over after paying commission to the group in Jaintia Hills.
A second group then drove the stolen vehicles to Shillong. From there another group took them to Tezpur and later to Nagaland and other parts of the Northeast, Plom divulged.
The Jaintia Hills group usually received Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000 per stolen vehicle as “commission” which was later divided among the members.
The superintendent of police said more arrests of the members of the association were on cards as police were carrying out raids acting of revelations from the members.
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