MUMBAI, April 21: An Indian police unit responsible for tackling the hardest theft cases in Mumbai was left embarrassed after one of its own patrol cars was stolen. Police had no idea where the car was four days after it was taken from a parking spot where it was left by an inspector who had borrowed the four-wheel drive for his personal use, the Hindustan Times reported.

The newspaper reported the car belonged to the Mumbai police’s stolen property cell. Officials from at least two stations have been searching for it around the clock without any luck. Senior police official Dha-nanjay Kamlakar told the newspaper: “We are looking for it.”

The car theft followed the disappearance of a two-ton counterfeiting note machine from a police ‘safe zone’ at a railway station, some nine years after it was seized in a raid.—AFP