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Police on Thursday busted an interstate gang of vehicle lifters by arresting five persons and recovered nine vehicles from them. Addressing a press conference, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Central Kashmir,

Muhammad Sulaiman Chowdhary said that a reliable information was received that some persons are involved in illegal selling of SUVs and cars in the areas of Narbal, Parimpora at a price much lesser to the actual cost of vehicles by way of luring and duping general public of their legitimate money and selling suspicious stolen vehicles.

He said that a case (FIR No. 16/2020 under relevant sections of law) was registered at Police Station Parimpora and investigation was taken up. The DIG said that during the course of investigation, 5 accused were arrested and 9 vehicles were recovered which were stolen from different states of the country. "The vehicles were recovered from different locations of Srinagar, Budgam, Baramulla and Bandipora," he said.