2 min readChandigarhDec 5, 2011 02:39 AM IST
First published on: Dec 5, 2011 at 02:39 AM IST
For a city like Chandigarh,the number of vehicle thefts taking place are pretty high. Blame it on high vehicle density or just lack of proper policing,till November this year 812 cases of vehicle thefts have been registered at 11 police stations in the city.
Out of these,police have been able to trace only 192 vehicles,while 620 vehicles including motorcycles,cars,jeeps and scooters are still missing. Everyday a few more are added to the list. The 192 vehicles which are shown to have been recovered are the ones which had been stolen from Chandigarh.
According to the police,the change in the modus operandi of thieves by selling the stolen vehicle in parts as spares and using documents of total-loss vehicles for stolen ones poses serious problems in vehicle recovery.
It is not that the police have not recovered stolen vehicles this year. The Crime Branch of the Chandigarh Police has also recovered 179 vehicles in various cases this year. But a majority of the recovered vehicles — 120 — have been found to have been stolen from other states.
Similarly,the Anti Auto Theft Cell operating under the Police Control Room has also recovered 91 vehicles since it has been set up. Here too a large number of vehicles which have been recovered have been stolen from other states. Both the Crime Branch and Anti Auto Theft Cell hand over the identified vehicles to the police station where a case of theft has been registered for that vehicle.
Many recovered vehicles are yet to be identified as their engine and chassis numbers have been tampered and such vehicles are sent to CFSL examination to determine their original details.
“Many vehicles stolen from the city are sold off in far flung places and a majority,especially two-wheelers,get dismantled and sold. We have recovered a large number of vehicles stolen from other places,while the vehicles stolen from Chandigarh are recovered in other places,” said Superintendent of Police R S Ghumman.
Share
