They told me the engine was about to catch fire, and convinced me that two parts were burnt and required immediate replacement, without which the car will catch fire. When I came out again, I saw sparks coming out from the engine. When I was entering the car, they quickly unplugged the spark plug, and I totally unaware of it. They opened the bonnet of my car and asked me to start the engine. Yadav said, “After two minutes, two more boys came up claiming they were mechanics from a nearby Maruti authorised servicing centre. I thought it was a god-send - almost midnight and a mechanic who spotted my car emitting sparks,” he told Pune Mirror. The youth told me to open my bonnet and offered to check it for me. “I alighted, but couldn’t spot any sparks. When he rolled down the window, the youth told him his car was emitting sparks, and added that he was a mechanic working in a garage located nearby. They were with their nephew Gurdeep and his parents after meeting Yadav’s brother, admitted to the Tata Memorial Cancer Research Institute.Īround 10.30 pm, at a point between Vashi and Panvel, Yadav slowed down when a youth standing beside the E-way signalled frantically to him to stop. The Assam Rifles officer, who is at AFMC for two years to undergo a medical course, and his deputy commandant wife D Chakravarti were travelling from Mumbai to Pune on June 1. It’s only when they take their cars for servicing or a check-up that they realise nothing has been repaired, no parts have been hanged, and what’s more, nothing was wrong with their car that night. Most motorists are more than happy not to be stuck without technical help on the E-way, and pay up.
Their charges: anything between Rs 10-15,000. They then call in “help” and pretend to change parts. When the alarmed motorist stops, the gang members pose as mechanics and offer to fix the vehicle.
Their ingenious modus operandi involves throwing burning camphor, or sometimes oil on moving cars at night, and then telling drivers their car is either emitting smoke or leaking oil. Experiencing this first hand and probably the first to bring it to light is the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune’s deputy commandant, Dr Pramod Yadav.Ī gang of innovative highway robbers are operating on the stretch between Panvel and Vashi, pretending to be mechanics and even offering help. There is a new fear stalking the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, and it clothes itself in mechanic-speak.
Operating between Panvel and Vashi on the Expressway, these highway robbers stop cars by throwing smoking camphor, then pretend to be mechanics and charge a bomb for ‘repairs’ Friendly e-way mechanics are the new robbing hoods
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