Tech-savvy car thief nabbed

NT Correspondent

A notorious tech-savy thief, who is also a MBA graduate, has been arrested for stealing high end cars. The thief, identified as Satyendra Singh Shekawat, a native of Jaipur, was also wanted by the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh police.

In fact, he had even challenged the Telangana police by sending them a WhatsApp message ‘catch me if you can’. Shekawat used to manage to get access of car keys either at service stations or valet parking. Using a device, he would scab them to prepare duplicate keys.

Due to his tech savy skills, he used to track the vehicles using GPS and steal them when parked. He is alleged to have stolen a high-end car from the premises of a police station in Telangana. He is alleged to have been selling the stolen cars to drug mafia kingpins.

He was earlier arrested by the Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharastra and Delhi police. He had also stolen the SUV of a Kannada film producer that was parked outside a hotel in Banjara Hills in Hyderabad in January, last year.

Shekawat’s wife was a partner in crime as she was helping him. The Telangana police had arrested her. However she managed to obtain bail.

The accused is suspected to have come to the city to sell a stolen SUV. As he was an interstate thief, most state police have kept a close watch on him. He is suspected to have stolen around 100 high end cars. Further investigations are on.