30% rise in vehicle thefts in Navi Mumbai

NAVI MUMBAI: While the rate of most crimes had dropped in 2020, the number of cases of vehicle theft saw a sharp rise. Around 30 per cent more vehicle theft cases were registered in 2019 and most of them were of commercial vehicles.

Despite the strict lockdown of around seven to eight months in 2020, a total of 113 cases of auto rickshaw thefts were registered, which is around 43 per cent higher than in 2019. In 2019 a total of 79 cases of auto rickshaw theft were registered. Similarly, there was also around a 12 per cent rise in car, jeep and pick-van theft cases in 2020. A total of 98 such theft cases were registered in 2020, which was just 88 in 2019. Police said that around 40 per cent cases of auto rickshaw theft were solved and around 21 per cent cases of rising of car, jeep and pick-van theft were solved. -