Cops arrested Sanjay D'Souza from Chembur and handed him over to the MIDC police, who are investigating the theft of a Xylo in 2016. D'Souza sold the car in Indore after forging papers to transfer it from Maharashtra RTO to MP RTO
Sanjay D'Souza
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Mumbai Crime Branch has finally arrested the crown prince of grand theft auto, Sanjay D'Souza, 45, who had been evading the police for years. Second in command of the racket, he is allegedly involved in the theft of over 100 cars from Mumbai, which were sold in Indore with fake documents. Kingpin Irfan Mansuri is in the custody of the Indore Crime Branch.
Irfan Mansuri
City cops arrested D'Souza from Chembur and handed him over to the MIDC police, who are investigating the theft of a Xylo in 2016. D'Souza sold the car in Indore after forging papers to transfer it from Maharashtra RTO to MP RTO.
Novel modus operandi
PSI Swapnil Bhujbal, from MIDC police station, is probing the case. "We had been looking for him since 2016. The accused rented the car, but took it to MP and sold it to someone. We had recovered the car, but he was absconding."
Mansuri and D'Souza have used the same modus operandi in multiple scams since 2012, when the former started a car rental business, Car King, in Mumbai Central. He allegedly duped 40 car owners, taking their cars on rent and promising Rs 30,000 a month. D'Souza sold the vehicles in Indore. They sold over 100 cars worth R5 crore in two years. In 2014, the Agripada police recovered 116 cars, and in 2017, the Indore police recovered 44.
There are cases filed against them at Agripada, Sakinaka and Vikhroli. The MIDC police will hand D'Souza over to the Nashik police, where a case is filed against him. He will then be transferred to the Indore police. ASP Amarendra Singh, Indore crime branch, said, "We'd arrested the kingpin, but D'Souza was wanted."
Rs 10k
Reward Indore police had announced for info on D'Souza
160
Number of stolen cars recovered so far
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