Man uses fake number on car, arrested

PUNE: A man was arrested on Friday for using a fake registration number on his car, in a bid to evade recovery agents. Two fake PAN cards were also seized from him.
Dinesh Gopal Shetty (33) of Kalamboli, New Mumbai, had taken a car loan, but when he could not repay the loan amount of Rs 1.75 lakh, he changed the number of his car so that it would not be seized by the recovery agents, said the police.
Assistant police inspector Manohar Kulkarni of the Deccan Gymkhana police station said Shetty had purchased the car from New Mumbai on a loan from a private bank in 2007. "He used to rent out the car. On October 3, he came to Pune with three passengers. On Fergusson college road, Shetty got into a dispute with some people and when the police arrived at the spot, he left the car and fled," Kulkarni said.
He said that when the police checked the documents of the car they found that the registration number was different from that on the car. "We got suspicious and started investigations," Kulkarni said. "A police team went to Shetty's Navi Mumbai residence to investigate and were told by his wife that he was not at home." Kulkarni said that Shetty was arrested on Thursday. The police recovered two PAN cards and a driving licence from his possession. The PAN card and driving licence carry his photograph, but the name and other details are of different people. We have arrested him under charges of forgery," Kulkarni said.
Shetty was produced in court on Friday and remanded to police custody for four days.