KOLKATA: 2 dozen bikes and scooters are stolen through the month-long constraints up from the typical yearly convicted of 15-18 two-wheelers.
The usage of two-wheelers has become since last year’s lockdown because of paucity of public transportation and dread of disease.
Throughout the improved constraints from May 16 to June 15, public transportation has gone from the roads.
This has caused a lot of commuters utilizing private transport, such as two-wheelers.
A few of those thefts occurred in the day in parking lots from localities such as New Market and also Posta in central Kolkata.
By comparison, thefts reported in Survey Park, Tiljala and Topsia occurred in wee hours when folks were still asleep.
Before this month, Prabhakar Prasad (47), a resident of Uttarpara at Hooghly, had left his car in front of a banking on Central Avenue about 11 am.
After he returned in 2.30 pm, the bicycle was gone.
Similar thefts happened from Amiya Hazra Lane at New Market and also Sambhunath Pandit Street close to a branded tea store throughout the day.
Not only expensive bicycles, scooters and scooterette bicycles and even batteries out of two-wheelers are stolen.
Police have nabbed a number of those thieves in Topsia along with Girish Park and regained a couple of bikes.
Cops out of Topsia detained a individual who has a stolen scooter over hours of their theft.
Likewise, the authorities, assessing CCTV footage, even apprehended a little for allegedly concealing a scooterette out of Tiljala Road.
The cops explained these burglars had no prior documents.
“It’s easy money today,” said a police source.
“We’ve formed specific teams and also have bolstered our origin media,” said an officer in the National headquarters.