August 25, 2018:
While he avoided making complaint to the Police initially.
A 58-year-old man whose car was stolen decided to become a detective and tracked it down in just two hours.
He achieved this feat with the help of GPS tracker installed in the Maruti Eeco van. He succeeded not only in recovering his car, but also got the thief arrested.
Mr. Harjeet Singh, a Businessman Transporter, owns five cars that he hires out to an online retail company. When he bought the Eeco two years ago, he got it fitted with a GPS device, and it proved its worth. On Thursday night his driver brought back the car at 10.30 as usual and parked it near his home in Hari Nagar in west Delhi.
When he took a stroll, he saw the van. But on his morning walk the next day, he noticed that the car was missing.
“I called the driver, and we looked for the van in the neighbourhood, but couldn’t find it, he said”
Businessman Singh’s first thought was to go to the cops. But he had some misgivings. “I thought of the various procedures one has to go through after registering a missing-car case,” he explained.
He called up the company and asked it to share car’s location with him.
Half an hour later, when he reached the given location at Saket, he figured that it was time he informed the police as he alone wouldn’t be able to nab the culprit and retrieve his car. “After informing the police control room, I received a call from a cop posted at Saket. I also got a call from Hari Nagar police station and police started coordinating with me,” Singh said. All this while, he was getting live updates about his car’s location.
Singh spotted a PCR van and told them about his case. “They decided that I should drive from one direction, they from another, to intercept the Eeco,” he said, adding that it was a thrilling experience that he had only seen in movies.
Singh spied the Eeco five minutes later and alerted the cops and the PCR personnel nabbed the car thief, Ashish Kumar, a resident of Sagarpur.
Source TOI
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