Vehicle seized, 3 arrested

 

COOCH BEHAR, Sept. 14: Baxirhat Police seized a Bolero car bearing registration number of Malda and seized three persons from the vehicle last night. They are residents of Arah of Bhojpur in Bihar. During interrogation the arrested trio confessed their crime and told the police that they were acting as carriers of a car lifter gang. They were entrusted to pass the stolen car from Uttar Pradesh-Bihar border to Assam through Baxirhat in Cooch Behar district. Police initiated a case against them.    

 

It may be mentioned here that Baxirhat Police had seized a number of stolen motor vehicles and arrested several persons from the West Bengal-Assam border area during the last two years. New model cars of various makes are of great demand in the clandestine market in northeast states and so the car lifter gangs prefer to use this route to traffic out the stolen vehicles. Following heavy police action the crime was reduced recently but the criminals started their operation once again, police said. []