ACLC busts gang of car lifters

A five-member gang of car lifters has been busted while stolen vehicles worth Rs30 million were recovered from their possession, a police spokesperson said on Friday. A special team headed by Islamabad Police’s Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) In-Charge Fiaz Ahmed Ranjha arrested five suspected car thieves, identified as Farhad, Ali, Waseem, Shehbaz and Iqbal. The police said that they recovered stolen vehicles along with devices used to tamper vehicles and fake stamps of various showrooms and invoices. During the preliminary investigations, it was discovered that the suspects used to tamper with the chassis and engine numbers of new vehicles and then sold them in the market against fake invoices. They would then have these vehicles registered with the Excise and Taxation Offices in Peshawar, Lahore and Islamabad, the spokesperson added. He said that the police team is in the process of recovering the illegally registered vehicles while the vehicles recovered from the possession of the suspect were discovered to have been stolen from different areas.