<p>Central Crime Branch (CCB) police have arrested two people who cheated finance companies to buy SUVs by submitting fake documents.</p>.<p>Officials seized seven SUVs worth around Rs 80 lakh from R Pradeep Kumar and Mansoor Mirza, both aged 38.</p>.<p>The duo was arrested based on a complaint by Mohan Kumar, area manager of Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited, with the Mico Layout police.</p>.<p>The manager stated in his complaint that Pradeep visited his office in 2018 and applied for a loan to buy vehicles, claiming to be the owner of a Bengaluru transport solutions company.</p>.<p>After verifying the documents Pradeep had produced regarding his company and residence, the company granted loans to buy six Mahindra Xylo SUVs.</p>.<p>Since Pradeep did not pay even a single installment, recovery agents visited the office address he provided only to find that no such company was operating there. He had faked his residential address, too.</p>.<p>Two years later, the finance firm received a call from the Electronics City RTO office informing them that an SUV registration transfer application had come from the RTO in Hyderabad with a fake no objection certificate (NOC).</p>.<p>The firm learnt that fake documents had been created for five other SUVs and one had been sold in Hyderabad.</p>.<p>Investigating the case, police nabbed Pradeep and found he had created fake documents for the vehicles bearing fake registration numbers with Mirza’s help. He later sold the vehicles in Hyderabad.</p>
<p>Central Crime Branch (CCB) police have arrested two people who cheated finance companies to buy SUVs by submitting fake documents.</p>.<p>Officials seized seven SUVs worth around Rs 80 lakh from R Pradeep Kumar and Mansoor Mirza, both aged 38.</p>.<p>The duo was arrested based on a complaint by Mohan Kumar, area manager of Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited, with the Mico Layout police.</p>.<p>The manager stated in his complaint that Pradeep visited his office in 2018 and applied for a loan to buy vehicles, claiming to be the owner of a Bengaluru transport solutions company.</p>.<p>After verifying the documents Pradeep had produced regarding his company and residence, the company granted loans to buy six Mahindra Xylo SUVs.</p>.<p>Since Pradeep did not pay even a single installment, recovery agents visited the office address he provided only to find that no such company was operating there. He had faked his residential address, too.</p>.<p>Two years later, the finance firm received a call from the Electronics City RTO office informing them that an SUV registration transfer application had come from the RTO in Hyderabad with a fake no objection certificate (NOC).</p>.<p>The firm learnt that fake documents had been created for five other SUVs and one had been sold in Hyderabad.</p>.<p>Investigating the case, police nabbed Pradeep and found he had created fake documents for the vehicles bearing fake registration numbers with Mirza’s help. He later sold the vehicles in Hyderabad.</p>