pune three toyota fortuner suvs collectively worth rs35 lakh were stolen from shivajinagar kasba peth and kothrud between 2am and 4am on tuesdaythe sports utility vehicles suvs belonged to congress corporator ravindra dhangekar from shivajinagar rajvardhan shitole from shaniwar peth and anil vitekar from kothrud all vehicles were white and they were not equipped with a global positioning system gpsshitole the owner of a bakery had parked his suv near his relatives residence in kasba peth around 10pm on monday he then went to his house in shaniwar peth the next morning shitole realized his car was missing and lodged a complaint with the faraskhana police stationthe value of the stolen suv was estimated at rs18 lakh the vehicle was a 2015 model and was not fitted with a gps it was shocking that the thieves managed to pick the locks of the suvs doors and tamper with such a highend vehicle shitole saidsubinspector yashpal suryavanshi said surveillance footage from the area revealed that four men reached near shitoles parked suv around 230am in a white mahindra scorpio within 20 minutes they managed to tamper with the engine control module ecm of the vehicle and drove away with it he saidboth the vehicles were seen leaving the spot around 247am the suvs then reached near coprorator dhangekars house in juna tophkhana shivajinagar they took about 17 minutes to steal my suv dhangekar saida surveillance camera near dhangekars house captured the thieves according to the footage the four reached the spot in shitoles suv one of them first inspected the area and checked the vehicle after a few minutes two more persons went near the suv and picked the suvs door locks one of the suspects then got into dhangekars suv the suspects drove away with both vehiclesthe four then drove to paud road near kelewadi phata and stole another toyota frontrunner around 4am shrinath vitekar anil vitekars relative relative said the suspects had come to paud road in a toyota fortuner and a hatchback car they picked the locks and all the three vehicles headed towards chandni chowk vitekar saidthe suv was parked near a cooperative bank the banks guard had seen someone was driving away in our vehicle but he thought some of us must be there and ignored it vitekar saidvitekar checked the surveillance footage collected from shops along paud road they suspects drove by one shop on the road and it took them another 20 minutes to them to pass another i suspect that they might have stopped somewhere along the road he saidsuhas bawache the deputy commissioner of police zonei told toi initial investigation has revealed that all three suvs were stolen by a gang of vehicle thieves from rajasthan