26 December,2021 09:48 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
The bike of a beat marshal that was stolen. Pics/Hanif Patel
The police are on the lookout for a man, who not only stole the patrolling motorcycle of a beat marshal from the premises of Virar police station, but later fled with a brand new two-wheeler that belonged to a teenager.
The incident came to light when the teenager's father Subhash Yadav registered an FIR at the Manikpur police station. The teenager, Anil Yadav, said he mistook the thief for a policeman. Anil said, "I was with my friend at Suncity ground for a video shoot on Friday. Around 9 am, a man riding a police patrolling motorcycle requested for a test drive."
Anil Yadav; (right) The man who allegedly fled with Yadav's bike
At no point did Anil suspect that he was a thief. "He said he was attached with the Vasai Virar police. Since he got off a patrolling bike, I thought he was a policeman and gave my keys to him." When the thief did not return even after 20 minutes, Anil informed the Manikpur police station about it.
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When contacted, Bhausaheb Aher, in-charge of Manikpur police station, asked mid-day to reach out to the Virar police station. Virar police station's in-charge Suresh Varhade said he was not aware of the issue.
However, DCP Sanjay Kumar Patil said that the teenager had recorded a video on his cellphone, in which the thief was captured in the footage. "I have asked an officer at Manikpur police station to record a supplementary statement of the complainant in which the recovery of a stolen patrolling bike [of a beat marshal] will be made."
