Mintoo Kumar, 28, listed the rental car on an online auction site and quickly sold it on.

The crafty criminal then used GPS to trace the car back to the new owner’s home and stole it back using a secret duplicate key.

Afterwards, he intended to repeat his gambit elsewhere.

The crime puzzled police at first, who were fooled by the forged registration plate and the sequence of events.

Police only caught up with Kumar when an officer received a tip-off that he was about to sell the vehicle again, according to the Hindustan Times.