Delhi Police has arrested "India's biggest car thief, Anil Chauhan, on Monday, 5th of September. Anil Chauhan is accused of stealing more than 5,000 cars from different parts of the country. Cops said 52-year-old Anil had a lavish lifestyle, with properties in Delhi, Mumbai, and the North East. Police claim that he is the biggest car thief in the country, and has allegedly stolen more than five thousand cars in the last 27 years. 

The Special Staff of Central Delhi Police caught him from the Desh Bandhu Gupta Road area after a tip-off from the police source. According to the police, Anil is currently involved in smuggling arms. He was allegedly carrying arms from Uttar Pradesh and supplying them to banned organizations in the North-Eastern states. Anil used to drive auto rickshaws while staying in the Khanpur area of Delhi, and started stealing cars after 1995. He is known for stealing the most Maruti 800 cars during that period. Anil Chauhan used to steal cars in different parts of the country and send them to Nepal, Jammu and Kashmir, and the North-Eastern states. He also killed some taxi drivers during the theft, the police further added.

He eventually moved to Assam and started living there. Probe agency Enforcement Directorate had also registered a money laundering case against him. Anil was arrested several times once with a Congress MLA in 2015, after which he remained in jail for five years and was later released in 2020. In total, there are 180 cases registered against him. More shockingly, Anil has three wives and seven children, according to the police. He had become a government contractor in Assam and was in touch with local political leaders there. Police have also recovered six pistols and seven cartridges from him.

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