Car lifters in Northeast form Vehicle Kidnapping Association
Posted by barunroy on August 29, 2008
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Shillong, Aug 29 (PTI): 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. (MORE) PTI RTJ MD PS PS 08290906 DEL Reliance Energy Ltd.,
