A young business owner in Delhi, India, suffering losses in his company made a near-perfect plan to recover his money.
Mintoo Kumar, 28, a BCA graduate, took a vehicle on rent, offered it on a e-commerce website positioning as the car owner and then stole it the very same night from its new owner.
Recently, police received information at the Dwarka Sector 23 station about a vehicle theft. On inspecting the automobile’s record, the authorities were perplexed since the details given by the owner belonged to a different Mahindra XUV vehicle of the very same color belonging to a Delhi local.
Explaining the series of occasions, a policeman stated, “The owner was not lying. He had bought the car through the site.It was stolen the exact same night. Initially we believed he was sold a taken automobile however later on we suspected the seller may have stolen the very same automobile from the brand-new owner. We registered a case and started to investigate,” stated an officer.
Authorities sources stated that throughout examination, a policeman received a tip-off about the suspect who was in Dwarka to sell the car once again. Mintoo was caught by a team of officers.
Mintoo’s modus operandi amazed even the most seasoned of policeman. Mintoo told the cops that he had actually taken the automobile around 7 hours after selling it. He stated he ran a massage parlor in Faridabad was running into losses.
“He took an automobile on lease 2 months back. To put his strategy into action, he started a look for a similar Mahindra XUV automobile. Once he discovered an automobile of the same color, he noted the information and then prepared a forged RC of the leased car. Unidentified to the original owner, he sold the vehicle. Later on that night, he utilized the duplicate key to steal it.”
Mintoo stated he had actually used the GPS facility to trace the vehicle that night. His father is a retired captain of the Indian Army.