LUCKNOW: Lucknow police have arrested a person who had provided stolen autos to the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The police have additionally solved a number of instances of automobile thefts with this arrest.

Satendra Singh Shekhawat, 43, who hails from Jaipur in Rajasthan, was arrested in Lucknow. He was lively in a number of states and largely stole costly automobiles.

Explaining his modus operandi, deputy commissioner of police (DCP-East) Ashish Srivastava mentioned that Shekhawat frequented service centres from the place he obtained particulars of automobiles corresponding to their chassis and engine numbers—information that he would wrongly use to make their duplicate keys. Nonetheless, he wouldn’t steal the focused automobiles immediately however would monitor them down by putting in GPS trackers to their onboard diagnostic (OBD) ports.

The 43-year-old was presently concentrating on sports activities utility autos (SUVs) of a well-liked automobile maker in Lucknow, Patna and Raipur.

“Throughout interrogation, Shekhawat confessed that he provided the stolen automobiles to Lawrence Bishnoi, ” the DCP mentioned, including that a number of instances of such thefts have been reported in Maharashtra, Haryana, Telangana, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Additionally, Shekhawat had been jailed in Telangana and Karnataka earlier than, and was launched from a jail solely a 12 months in the past.

One SUV, 11 digital keys and pretend quantity plates have been recovered from him, the police mentioned.

Shekhawat additionally informed police that he stole a black SUV in Darulshafa on November 22 final 12 months and one other white SUV of the identical make from Telibagh 5 days later, the DCP mentioned.