9 held for selling BS-IV scrapped vehicles with forged documents

Navi Mumbai Police recovers 151 cars worth Rs 7.15 crore

The Central Unit of Crime Branch of Navi Mumbai police have arrested nine persons and busted an interstate racket who allegedly sold more than 400 Bharat Stage (BS) IV cars meant for scrap by making fake documents and embedding them with old chassis numbers. The police also recovered 151 cars worth Rs 7.15 crore from them.

Among the arrested included the owner of Auto Auction India, Chembur which had taken 407 BS-IV vehicles from Automotive Manufacturers Pvt Limited to scrap them. However, instead of scrapping those vehicles, the owner of the auction company used fake documents like RC books and changed the chassis number and sold them in different states illegally.

As per the Supreme Court order, no new motor vehicles with BS-IV emission norms could be sold after March 31, 2020. The balance vehicles would have to be sold as scrap. Following the order, the car manufacturing company sold those leftover BSIV vehicles in scrap to Automotive Manufacturers Private Limited (AMPL).

In January, the Central Unit of Crime Branch of Navi Mumbai police received information about the racket and following which arrested nine persons from Panvel, Pune, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad.