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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/2009/10/12/stories/2009101251690300.htm)
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Mystery shrouds car theft


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Drivers approach police station, lodge complaint

The incident occurred on Saturday night near GupteswarThe police are yet to make a headway in the case
KORAPUT: It would be difficult for travel agencies to give vehicles to lesser known people and also for the common men in Koraput district to travel in rented vehicles especially after the theft of a vehicle near Gupteswar on Saturday night.
While the police was yet to establish any particular reason behind the theft of a Bolero vehicle, the trust and faith among the people was put to test.
According to the drivers of the vehicle, who had approached the police station at Boipariguda on Sunday morning, the vehicle was hired by five persons at Rayagada for visiting the Shaiva shrine at Gupteswar. The passengers, who included two women, said that they were from Damanjodi while hiring the vehicle. The team, after spent a good amount of time at Gupteswar, begun their return journey at around 11 p.m.
Al the passengers of the vehicle, including the drivers, got down from the vehicle at Dokri Ghati to offer twigs and leaves of trees to Dalkhai, the deity of the forest on their return journey towards Boipariguda .
It was then that the two drivers of the vehicle were tied down to a tree by some strangers who had reached the spot on two motorbikes. The person sitting in the back seat of the vehicle then had taken control of the driving seat. While the drivers screamed for their release, all of them, including the passengers of the vehicle and the strangers who had come in motorbikes disappeared into the thick darkness of the night.
The drivers, some how could get out of the ropes and walked back to Ramgiri. But as there was no police outpost there, they had to stay for the rest of the night before they could proceed to Boipariguda, the nearest police station in the morning.
While investigation was in progress to find out the reason of the visit of the passengers to Gupteswar in odd hours, the version of the drivers was also scrutinised with utmost care, Deepak Kumar, SP of Koraput said.


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