New Delhi, Delhi Police has busted an organised inter-state auto-lifting syndicate involved in stealing high-end vehicles, tampering with chassis numbers and fraudulently re-registering them using forged documents, officials said on Saturday. Delhi Police bust auto theft racket spanning 5 states; 10 held, 31 vehicles recovered Ten key members of the racket have been arrested, and 31 stolen luxury vehicles with tampered chassis numbers have been recovered from different states, they said. The case stems from an e-FIR registered on August 5, 2025, at Maurya Enclave police station after a Pitampura resident reported theft of her SUV. The case was later transferred to the the Crime Branch, which uncovered a larger network operating across Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh. During investigation, police found that the syndicate not only stole vehicles but also procured loan-defaulted cars, and gave them new identities by tampering with chassis and engine numbers. The gang allegedly used forged sale certificates , fake registration papers, and fabricated bank NOCs to re-register the vehicles, officials said. “They created a parallel system …