Alipurduar, May 27: A Mitsubishi Pajero owned by Bollywood couple Ashutosh Rana and Renuka Sahani was recovered by police from Indo-Bhutan border in Jaigaon.

Two persons, suspected to be members of a car lifting racket, have been arrested and taken to Mumbai from where the vehicle had been stolen.

Sources said a police team patrolling Netaji Road in Jaigaon had spotted a Mitsubishi Pajero on May 10. The policemen signalled the SUV to stop, but the driver sped away.

The police chased the car and intercepted it a few hundred metres away from the gate that leads to Bhutan. “If the car had entered Bhutan, it would have been a tough job to catch the culprits and recover the vehicle,” said a police officer.

The driver, Kazi Biswakarma, failed to produce relevant documents of the vehicle and was arrested along with another person seated in the car. The duo, residents of Siliguri, were produced in the additional chief judicial magistrate’s court here the next day and remanded in police custody for seven days.

The police recorded the details of the Pajero, including the engine and chassis numbers, and passed on the information to all police stations in the country. Soon, a reply came from Maharashtra police, who said a complaint had been lodged with Versova police station in Andheri West of Mumbai on May 3, mentioning that a Mitsubishi Pajero had been stolen.

“The Maharashtra police also said the car belonged to Asutosh Rana and Renuka Sahani. On Wednesday, a three-member Maharashtra police team reached Jaigaon and completed all formalities before heading back to Mumbai today with the two accused and the car,” said a police officer.

The police did not say if the car had been stolen by Biswakarma and the other arrested man, Dinesh Singh. They said the probe was progressing and the duo were most probably part of an inter-state car lifting racket.