New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- The Delhi Police crime branch has arrested a 56-year-old man, identified as Alok Shrivastava, a key member of an interstate gang involved in multiple car theft cases registered across India, officials said on Saturday. Shrivastava, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, had been absconding for the past three years in a car theft case registered at the Model Town police station and was declared a proclaimed offender by a Delhi court in 2023.

Deputy commissioner of police (crime) Harsh Indora said the crime branch had registered a case in 2022 involving vehicle theft, cheating, forgery, and criminal conspiracy following a complaint alleging that Shrivastava and his associate Abhay Singh had purchased a stolen ...