G
UWAHATI: Here's a word of caution for vehicle owners and transport operators in the North-East. Inter-state vehicle lifters active in the region
are posing as drivers to take out vehicles from Assam.
Police stumbled onto this fact after they arrested six vehicle lifters from Banderdewa in upper Assam's Lakhimpur district bordering Arunachal Pradesh on Friday.
According to police, one of the arrested lifters identified as Mohammad Ali who had posed as a driver and taken a truck from city-based truck owner Binoy Deka on October 5, had sold off the vehicle in Arunachal with the help of the other five. The other lifters have been identified as Amit Sarkar (Sonitpur), Raju Saha (Dhemaji), Abdul Matin (Lakhimpur), Ajay Das (Hojai) and Mohammad Rafiq Ali of Laluk in Lakhimpur district.
"Based on information that they had sold the truck in Arunachal, we nabbed the driver Ali and later arrested the other five. The lifters have admitted that Ali posed as a driver to dupe Deka and take out his truck," a Jorabat police official said. The officer added that the stolen truck has been traced and would be brought back to the city soon.
"Initially we faced problems tracing the driver because Deka had employed Ali without verifying his identity and address. Truck owners should verify the identity of drivers before employing them," the officer said. Police have arrested several truck lifters in the past few months in the city.
The lifters take the vehicles out of the state and sell them off in Manipur, Dimapur (Nagaland) and Arunachal Pradesh.
UWAHATI: Here's a word of caution for vehicle owners and transport operators in the North-East. Inter-state vehicle lifters active in the region
are posing as drivers to take out vehicles from Assam.
Police stumbled onto this fact after they arrested six vehicle lifters from Banderdewa in upper Assam's Lakhimpur district bordering Arunachal Pradesh on Friday.
According to police, one of the arrested lifters identified as Mohammad Ali who had posed as a driver and taken a truck from city-based truck owner Binoy Deka on October 5, had sold off the vehicle in Arunachal with the help of the other five. The other lifters have been identified as Amit Sarkar (Sonitpur), Raju Saha (Dhemaji), Abdul Matin (Lakhimpur), Ajay Das (Hojai) and Mohammad Rafiq Ali of Laluk in Lakhimpur district.
"Based on information that they had sold the truck in Arunachal, we nabbed the driver Ali and later arrested the other five. The lifters have admitted that Ali posed as a driver to dupe Deka and take out his truck," a Jorabat police official said. The officer added that the stolen truck has been traced and would be brought back to the city soon.
"Initially we faced problems tracing the driver because Deka had employed Ali without verifying his identity and address. Truck owners should verify the identity of drivers before employing them," the officer said. Police have arrested several truck lifters in the past few months in the city.
The lifters take the vehicles out of the state and sell them off in Manipur, Dimapur (Nagaland) and Arunachal Pradesh.
0 comments:
Post a Comment