Man who stole car from Goa nabbed

Coimbatore: The city police on Tuesday detained a youth who had rented a car using fake IDs in Goa. He will be handed over to Goa police on Wednesday. Three of his friends managed to escape.
Police said Mohammed Nowfal, 22, of Ernakulam in Kerala, and three of his friends rented a car in Goa for five days from September 18 by submitting fake Aadhaar cards.They told the rental company that they were visiting Pune and would return to Goa on September 19.
However, when the company staff tracked the car using a GPS device attached to it, they located the car in Karnataka. Efforts of the company to contact the youths did not yield any result.
Immediately, a staff member in the company informed his relative Ajithkumar, of Kerala, about the incident and shared the live location of the car.
Ajithkumar tracked the car’s route. “The car was stopped near Coimbatore railway junction for an hour,” he said. Subsequently, he approached the city police.
When the police tried to nab the youths, they managed to escape in the car. Police, along with Ajithkumar, followed the car. Ajithkumar contacted the company staff and asked them to switch off the engine using the GPS device. When the car engine was switched off near Suguna Kalyanamandapam, the youths tried to run away. Police, however, were able to catch Nowfal, while others escaped.
The Peelamedu police seized the car. Ajithkumar said the car’s original number plate was changed.