Navi Mum cops bust stolen truck regn scam at Rural RTO

Nagpur: The Navi Mumbai police’s anti-vehicle theft squad has exposed a scam in the Regional Transport Office (RTO), where stolen vehicles were being registered with new engine and chassis numbers, and sold again. The racket spanning India also operated from Nagpur in nexus with some RTO officials, who are now under the scanner.

It’s learnt Navi Mumbai crime branch team has been camping in the city for the last two days and also arrested a RTO agent, identified as Sheel Jamulkar, for questioning. Another RTO agent, who was also a key part of the gang, is on the run.

The agents had transferred several stolen trucks from different states and brought them to Nagpur Rural RTO, where they were registered with fake documents. The stolen trucks are mostly registered at Arunachal and Meghalaya RTOs, and then brought to Nagpur RTO to further transfer them with fake documents. Such stolen trucks with fake documents are sold at lower prices in Mumbai, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

It’s learnt the Navi Mumbai crime branch cops seized two heavy vehicles in March following a tip-off that they were stolen and being used with fake documents created from Arunachal Pradesh RTO. The trucks had been subsequently taken to Nagpur, where the agents helped transfer them with documents prepared in the Rural RTO before being sold to different persons.

The cops had realized the trucks, both purchased through Nagpur-based agents, were not made by the manufacturers mentioned in the documents during investigations with the help of automobile experts.

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