ES Reporter 

ITANAGAR, May 28:  Acting on a tip-off, Capital Police had hunted down one vehicle thief who robbed and snatched a SUV from Papunallah area. The accused has been identified as Nima Tsering, 27 years of West Kameng  and presently residing at Papunallah, Naharalgun.
On  April  23 last, an FIR was lodged at Naharalgun police station from one Purna Orang of Sonitpur, Assam a driver by profession   informing that at around 2 am on that day he was attacked by some unknown miscreants near Papunallah and the Scorpio vehicle he was driving bearing Registration No. AS-12AC-3565 was snatched away. Accordingly a case numbering -73/19 u/s 341/323/392/34 of IPC was registered, informed SP Capital  Tumme Amo.
Under the supervision of SP Capital, a team was constituted comprising  Inspector  M.Geyi OC  Naharlagun, Inspector (Investigation Officer)  D.Dulom, H/C Kude Rigia, Ct Gagam Tamut, Ct Kipa Ajay and Ct Tapak Maling.                                  
During investigation it was found that the vehicle  has been registered in the name of one Parna Sarkar Saikia, which came to Itanagar on hire basis for election duty but was unfortunately robbed. 
The I.O sent out WT messages to all OCs of the various police stations, IC check gates and   to the neighbouring states. The team was deployed in civil dresses to keep a sharp surveillance in various locations regarding the movement of any suspected vehicle lifter round the clock.

SP further added  that in the morning of  25 May at 8 am, an automatic message was received by the owner of the vehicle in his  registered mobile number regarding vehicle servicing/repair from Mahindra Iconic dealer Lekhi Naharlagun and from that message it became clear that the robbed Scorpio vehicle has faced some mechanical problems. The police team instantly visited the dealer/ service center at Lekhi and inquired about the vehicle, but it was not there and the officials of the dealer could not tell anything concrete about the person who came and reported the mechanical problem of the said Scorpio vehicle. The police team in civil uniform then conducted physical checking of all the private garages and other places within Naharlagun area & one white Scorpio without number plate was noticed at A-Sector Naharlagun by the side of one private garage. From the garage owner it was learnt that one unknown person had kept the vehicle some days ago and promising to  come back later to take it to the dealer.

On careful inspection, it was found to be the same Scorpio robbed on April 23 from Pappunala. Finally on  May 27 at around 10 pm, the suspect later identified as Nima Tsering came there with one dumper vehicle to tow the Scorpio vehicle and was caught red-handed immediately leading to the recovery of the robbed Scorpio vehicle along with original RC.
The alleged accused person Nima Tsering was produced before court and is remanded to 5-day police custody. It is suspected that he may be involved in other vehicle thefts too and investigation is on to get further information from him. 

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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