White Bolero stolen. And then RECOVERED using GPS Tech!! Screenshots inside Hi everyone,am still a newbie but starting a thread as i thought this could be useful.
It was a pleasant Sunday morning in the winters of 2010, to be precise on the 19th of December 2010.I had off day from work so was just idling around the house, planning to do some odd jobs for my aunt. Moreover, it was my cousin’s birthday so he was to be dropped for a surprise birthday party at 11am.All seemed well for that morning till the time I got a call from my elder brother (He works with the Mahindras, not auto or IT sector).It was 12:05pm to be precise. He asked me where I was and then asked me , ”Bhai, can you do me a favor , can you see where our Bolero is?” I was like “What? What do you mean?” to which he replied, its been stolen at night from the parking area!!
Now for some information, my brother and his team have been provided with 2 vehicles by the company, 1 Bolero and 1 Scorpio(vlx), both fitted with GPS locators. The Bolero in question was the one fitted with the device. He is located at Bhatinda and the USB drive net connectivity was not good there. So he asked me to start tracking the vehicle. Since it was a Sunday, they also had their day off so they noticed the missing Bolero around 11:30am only.
Well, then began Operation Khoj (as named by the people concerned at Mahindras).I logged on to their tracking website and the first location I got was of Ferozepur. They had driven off with it just over 100kms and as of that time, it was stationery.So I conveyed the location to him.He in the meantime had started off to Ferozepur with 2 constables and a few more people from his team. Throughout his journey, I kept tracking the bolero and was surprised to find it standing still. Then I got an alert msg saying that someone had fiddled with the ignition switch and now the device was running on backup battery. I was able to locate the vehicle on the map but our few contacts at Ferozepur (Army chaps) were not able to locate that area as it was in bylanes. So they were scouting for the exact location.
At about 1:54pm, I noticed the vehicle had started off to some other location and at that very moment, my brother had reached the same area. I kept on conveying the location to him and they all were frantically searching for the vehicle. Then the vehicle disappeared from the tracker as it was running on backup system. When it reappeared after a few minutes,I noticed it was moving along a road parallel to where my brother and policemen were travelling. And to our respite, the vehicle took a U turn to be taken to a village just outside Firozepur, near IB. It came to a stop just next to a road and that was its final location. He also got in touch with other people at his office and got the exact location. Then began the waiting game for the local police to arrive. The police was there at about 3:00pm and they raided the house where it was lying and found the vehicle. Now the interesting part is that the Bolero was installed with Autocop remote locking and it opened with it. Then came the surprise, all the locks had been changed including the ignition, the company stickering had been removed, seat covers and matting also were removed. The police verified the credentials of the vehicle and handed it over to them saying that case will be registered at Bhatinda itself. So the vehicle was driven back by my brother and was put in the custody of Bhatinda police by 8:00pm. The whole thing took place in less than 24hrs. And the vehicle was recovered within 4 hrs after it was found missing. That’s another story that it took them 4 days and over Rs.30K to get the vehicle back in their possession from the police. The police also went ahead and did a PC to tell everyone how they recovered a vehicle in such small amount of time. |