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AHMEDABAD: The traffic rules enforcement drive by Ahmedabad police had a comic moment when a car driver fled with the wheel lock cops had put on his car because it was parked in a no-parking zone.

Police have now filed a FIR against the unknown driver at Madhavpura police station, for stealing the lock.

According to the FIR lodged by traffic constable Ranbirsingh Jat, a car was parked in the no-parking zone near Prem Darwaja traffic police station on Saturday.

He had put a clamp-type wheel lock on one of the car’s wheels and the driver was informed that his car was locked because of the parking violation .

Police waited till Saturday night for the driver to respond. Jat called him continually, to ask when he would come to pay Rs 1,000 fine for unlawful parking. Late on Saturday night, the driver, who introduced himself as Tanveer Pathan, called up Jat and said he was going to break the lock and would take his car away, said a police official.

Stunned, the constable who was on duty at Dilli Darwaja, rushed to where he had put the wheel lock on the car. He found neither the car nor the lock.

“I called him all through the day on Sunday but he did not answer my calls. I then approached police to file a complaint for theft under IPC section 379 against the driver,” Jat told police.

Madhavpura police officials said the car was registered in Vadodara and they have begun the process of formally identifying the driver.

Madhavpura inspector V N Rabari said this is the first case of its kind in the city where a car driver fled after breaking a clamp lock. “We have approached the RTO to get the address of the driver to arrest him,” said Rabari.

