PESHAWAR, May 9: The city police has handed over 16 snatched vehicles to their owners who hail from different cities. The recovered cars were given away by Chief City Police Officer Abdul Majeed Marwat at a press conference held at the Peshawar Police Lines and attended by SSP (investigations) Qazi Jamilur Rehman.

The CCPO expressed his determination to wipe out car-snatching gangs and vowed to pursue criminal gangs vigorously. Praising the performance of the Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC), he said the 16 vehicles had been recovered in a short period of time.

“We are trying our best to curb the illegal business of dealing in stolen cars because car-lifting could not be stopped until there is a market out there,” he said. All recovered vehicles had been thoroughly checked in the forensics laboratory in Islamabad where police had traced out their chassis numbers.

The police had also traced the owners of the stolen vehicles who belonged to various parts of the country, including Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi.