Mumbai: Man plays ‘chor-police’ with teenager

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.

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."