Monday, December 13, 2010

Uttarakhand minister’s Scorpio stolen from residence

A Mahindra Scorpio belonging to Uttarakhand’s Food and Civil Supplies minister was stolen from his Raj Nagar Sector-7 residence on Sunday morning.

According to the complaint lodged at the Kavi Nagar police station by Rajendra Singh Bhandari, a Cabinet minister in the Uttarakhand goverment, the minister had come to Ghaziabad on Saturday and was preparing to leave on Sunday morning when he found his vehicle missing.The car had been parked in front of his house.

The minister was in town to attend a wedding. According to the police, the car had not been fitted with any alarm systems. It had a sticker with the minister’s name and designation on the front windshield. The minister reportedly contacted the Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police who assured him that the vehicle would be recovered.

According to data available with the police, there have been 2,764 vehicle thefts reported in Ghaziabad from January to November this year. Of this only 174 vehicles have been recovered.

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