Bengaluru: Retired Bank N Srinivasan officers will never imagine in his outward dream that he will be able to see his beloved motorcycle, which was stolen 25 years ago, again.
But his child’s sustainable efforts allow.
When a seventy-old eye set on a bicycle in Hebbal’s house, he could not hold back his emotions.
Srinivasan, 75, has bought Bullet Royal Enfield in 1971.
It was stolen in 1996 after he gave it to temporary friends.
His son software engineer, who has only black and white photos from a bicycle from 1972 and some memories of sleeping stories, set out to find two-wheeled vehicles for Srinivasan about 15 years ago.
It was in mid-2006 Arun Srinivasan, now 38, began to think about his old father’s motorbike missing.
“Working with Syndicate Bank as an agricultural officer dealing with loans for farmers, my father bought a motorcycle in 1971 when he was posted in the city of Hassan.
He rose extensively to the villages in the district at work.
There was only one photo of my father and His friend beside the motorcycle and I vaguely could see the MYH 1731 reading plate, “Arun Toi said.
Determined to find a bicycle, Arun reached out to his father’s father in Manipal which temporarily had it in 1995 as Srinivasan was transferred from the country.
But Arun was told the motorbike was stolen from a friend’s ownership in 1996 and he was unable to find it since then.
Arun continued his search even when the day changed months and months to year.
He asked in the old garage in various parts of his father’s carnataka used for a visit.
He contacted his father’s old friends and agents in various RTO, and also turned to social media to help in vain until 2021.
Complete digitization of the Department of Transportation throughout the country and Parijahan rental portal government came as a ray of hope for professional software.
“In early 2021, I began to search with the details of my father’s motorcycle registration and a lot of my excitement, 15 years of effort paid off when I saw an insurance policy registered under the Bullet Royal Enfield still carrying the MYH 1731 registration number,” Arun remembered.
After a fewer visits for the transportation office, Arun in February 2021 managed to trace the owner, a farmer from a village in T Narasipura from Mysuru.
“Farmers were surprised to receive my phone calls and to find out the story behind the motorbike he was riding Claimed, “Arun said.
Because farmers have bought, modified and started using motorbikes to commemorate his grandfather who had had Bullet Royal Enfield, it was emotionally difficult for him for the part with it.
But a few months later, Arun received a call he was waiting for.
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He said he was willing to sell a motorcycle and I agreed,” Arun said, added that he rushed to Narasiipura with his daughter Yashna and friend Karthik Tomb was part of an emotional reunion.
They rode back to Bengaluru after a few months of restoration.
When Arun and Yashna were handed over a bicycle for Srinivasan, he could not hold back his tears.
“This is a great feeling to reunite with my old horse after more than 25 years.
All thanks to my child,” said seventy-old.
After the 15-year techie hunt, Daddy reunited with his beloved bike
