This may sound really strange. But someone has been quietly stealing those road-side sign boards put up by Mumbai Police that tell us where a taxi stand is supposed to be and how many taxis are expected to be found at the stand.

Not just a few, but over 1,100 of the 1,500 such sign boards in Mumbai have been taken down or wrenched off trees and lamp posts over the past two years — from Malabar Hills to Borivli and Colaba to Chembur. This has left citizens in search of a cab befuddled and taxi drivers fuming.