BENGALURU:
You might have heard of stolen bikes or cars and sometimes buses too but in a bizarre incident in Bengaluru, thieves decamped with an entire bus stop! Estimated at a cost of Rs 10 lakh, the stainless steel bus shelter located on Cunningham Road in Karnataka’s capital city Bengaluru has vanished.
The Bengaluru police said that it has filed an FIR regarding theft.The area from where the bus shelter equipped with chairs, roofs, and poles was stolen is situated just 1 km from the Vidhana Soudha and fall inside Bengaluru’s ‘VIP’ area.
In a previous occurrence, back in March, a bus stand that had stood for three decades in HRBR Layout, located in Kalyan Nagar of Bengaluru, mysteriously disappeared overnight.
On September 30th, N. Ravi Reddy, an Associate Vice President at a prominent company involved in the construction of bus shelters in Bengaluru, lodged a formal complaint.
