It had been a rather smooth journey for Thane resident Ashish Patil for the past few months, after he received his bike from the service centre. But, on Monday, he was shocked when his two-wheeler suddenly broke down, after he refuelled it from a petrol pump near Eternity Mall, Teen Hath Naka. Adding to his shock, Patil returned to the fuel station to find more bikers like him charging the petrol pump employees with diluting the petrol with water. Before long, cops were called in to pacify over a hundred motorists who had gathered to protest the milavat.

Ashish Patil (L) and other bikers and motorists show how water had been mixed with petrol