MNS corporator loses cellphone to 'tak tak gang'

MUMBAI: The lone MNS corporator within the BMC, Sanjay Turde, has turn into the newest victim of a tak tak gang, dropping his mobile phone to the tricksters in Kurla.
Turde’s attention used to be diverted by the group out of doors a traffic police chowkie on the busy LBS Road in Kurla (west) round eight.30 pm on Monday. “Such incidents are happening separately on busy roads and the police most commonly fail to catch the culprits,” he mentioned.

The incident took place when Turde used to be on his way to a relative’s house in Chembur from Kurla in his automobile. A person seemed on the left aspect of the car and suddenly cried out as though in pain, pretending that the car wheel had beaten his foot. He screamed at Turde and banged on the car door.

When Turde diminished the window pane of the car to check what had happened, another person banged on the automobile on the proper aspect. Turde turned his attention to the appropriate, which is when the person pretending to be injured picked up his mobile phone from atop the car dashboard and walked away.

“Everything happened in a few seconds,” Turde mentioned. “They created a panic-like scenario and committed the crime. If they may be able to scare a public representative like this, believe what will be the plight of an odd particular person.”


Turde mentioned he had requested his party males to look at the spot the place his phone used to be stolen for the following couple of days throughout rush hour. “We will try to catch the group in case it tries to commit a an identical crime again,” he mentioned.


Such gangs, referred to as tak tak gangs because they knock on the automobile to attract the occupant’s attention to at least one aspect, most commonly target people who keep their valuables on the passenger seat or atop the dashboard on busy stretches throughout rush hour, when vehicles transfer very slowly. They vanish from the spot within seconds of the crime.


In March, a Powai resident, Eshan Pancholi, lost his mobile phone price Rs 61,000 on a busy highway in Andheri (east) whilst using to work. Another motorist whose automobile used to be behind Pancholi’s clicked an image of one of the vital gang contributors whilst he used to be fleeing. The picture used to be shared with the police, however they are yet to trace the culprit.


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