Three arrested with 9 cars from Meerut

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police have arrested three persons allegedly involved in over 100 cases of car theft and recovered nine luxury cars from them. The police found

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police have arrested three persons allegedly involved in over 100 cases of car theft and recovered nine luxury cars from them. The police found in their possession engine control modules (ECMs) -- a computer system fitted in the car -- that they used to unlock the cars.

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Mehtab (42), Hukum Singh (28) and Abdul Sajid (28), all three from Meerut, would visit Delhi on the direction of their bosses, Nawab and Gulfam.

They would bring ECMs with them. There is a specific ECM for every car. They would identify the cars, in which they could fit their ECM, in South Delhi and NCR at night. With the help of their instruments, they removed the ECM of the car and replaced it with theirs. This way they would unlock and start the car easily.

“The ECM consists of three parts, one is fitted under the dash board of the car and the other two parts inside the car near the steering lock.

“The accused men replaced all three parts of the targeted vehicle with the ECMs they carried to synchronise the ignition of the vehicle. It took them 15 minutes to complete the process ,” said Ishwar Singh, DCP, South.

The accused men would then sell the cars in Meerut after replacing the engine and chassis number plates on the basis of forged documents.