New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday said three men stole over 40 luxury cars using hi-tech tools, including scanners and GPS jammer. Deputy Commissioner of Police (southwest), Manoj C, said the accused were inspired by Hollywood movie ‘The Fast & the Furious’ and used scanners to unlock the cars within minutes and jammer to disable the GPS if it was installed in the car, PTI reported.
The accused have been identified as Manish Rao (42) and Jagdeep Sharma (43), both residents of Delhi’s Uttam Nagar, and Aas Mohammad (40), a native of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.
Rao and Sharma were nabbed when they came to strike a deal for a stolen car, police said, adding the car was found stolen from the Paschim Vihar area.
Various instruments, including sensor kit, magnet, LNT keys and eight remote car keys were recovered during the search of the stolen vehicle, police added.
Mohammad, who was the main supplier of these stolen cars, was also arrested, police said, adding that he used to sell these vehicles in Rajasthan.
The three arrested, according to police, are members of the infamous ‘Ravi Uttam Nagar gang’.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police said the three accused disclosed that they along with their leader Ravi have stolen over 40 cars since April from various areas of the city, including Uttam Nagar, Tilak Nagar, Subash Nagar, Pashim Vihar, Munirka and Dwarka among others and sold them in Rajasthan and Meerut.
“The accused disclosed that by using a software-based hacking device, they unlocked cars and after formatting the vehicle’s software, installed new software with the help of device,” Manoj C said.
“The new keys became ready and they stole the cars within two to three minutes,” he added.
The police said the accused after stealing the car parked it outside societies, near hospitals and other such places where the CCTV camera was not installed, adding they used to transport the vehicle to the buyer as per the demand.
The police further said two pistols with five live cartridges, tool kits, hacking device, 30 keys of cars, tools and seven stolen cars were recovered from the possession of the trio.