A scooter owned by a flower vendor gets stolen, and a month later, three unknown people arrive from Pune asking for its RC (registration certificate) book. This is the bizarre situation Vikas Surve (54) had to face recently. Surve is a flower vendor from Sion and had bought the two-wheeler for Rs 64,000 in February.

Vikas Surve points to the spot outside his house from where the scooter was stolen. Pic/Suresh KK