After a 39-year-old schoolteacher could not find his bike at the spot where he had parked it, he concluded it had been stolen and approached the police. What he hardly expected to learn was that the ‘thief’ was the BMC.u00a0

Hassled: Elias Coelho, a resident of Vasai who is a teacher at St Mary’s ICSE school in Mazgaon, says his bike disappeared on August 21.u00a0Pic/Datta Kumbhar