7 On Your Side: Man’s car wrongfully taken by repo man in East Harlem [Video]

NEW YORK (WABC) — It was a middle-of-the-night hook-up and haul-off in East Harlem, and it was caught on camera.

The SUV’s owner was bewildered. He owned the vehicle outright, lien-free. So, when he couldn’t get it back he called 7 On Your Side.

The vehicle was gone in 60 seconds. The video shows Gurjinder Singh’s SUV getting hooked up and hauled away by the repo man.

“When I go home and sleep like 1 a.m., like 2 a.m., and somebody is, like a tow truck company. They come and they take my car,” he said.

The vehicle was parked at the gas station where he’s worked for 18 years.

He had paid off the vehicle 6 years ago on December 5, 2017.

“Why did they take it? That’s my question, why did they take my car,” Singh said.

For months he tried to find out why the Acura was ordered to be repossessed …