Youth takes Rs 78,000 bike for test drive, never returns to showroom

Itanagar: A youth allegedly drove away with a new motorbike from a showroom here during a test drive, police said today. Posing as a buyer, the youth in his mid-twenties went out on a test drive with an employee of the showroom’s owner as pillion rider. [caption id=“attachment_1313899” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. Reuters[/caption] After a brief test drive, the youth asked the employee to get down as he desired to have another test drive on a kachha road. While doing so the man never came back with the costly motorbike on Saturday. As the youth remains untraced, the dealer has announced a cash reward of Rs 50,000 for person(s) giving information about the new 180cc bike priced at Rs 78,000, police said. PTI