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Post ruckus: The government bus parked at the Tambaram police station. — TAMBARAM: A 20-year-old youth drove away a government bus parked near the Tambaram depot of the State Transport Corporation. He drove it through thickly populated localities and dense traffic corridors to East Coast Road, several km away, before the vehicle came to a halt after dashing against a tree. The youth sustained minor injuries. No motorist or pedestrian was harmed during the course of the youth’s “journey”, which he told police was due to his “childhood interest of driving a bus.” The government bus, attached to the Chengalpattu depot and belonging to the Villupuram Division of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, was being operated on the Tambaram-Tindivanam route (No. 121). The crew members, Kumar and Sridhar reached Tambaram around 1 p.m. and parked the vehicle near the Tambaram depot a little later. It was among a dozen vehicles parked one behind the other. The crew members told the police that they had lunch at the canteen in the depot and returned 10 minutes later to find no sign of the bus. Shocked, they alerted their higher-ups who informed police. Personnel at the Tambaram police station said they received a wireless message around 2 p.m. and alerted all check-posts in St. Thomas Mount and neighbouring police districts. They said a patrol team in Kelambakkam noticed the government bus proceeding towards Muttukadu and at Karikaattukuppam village, it came to a halt after dashing against a tree. The vehicle, along with the "driver," was brought to the Tambaram police station. The 20-year-old Selvakumar, who had a degree in automobile engineering, told the police that he had nurtured a desire since childhood to drive a government bus. He belonged to K.K.Nagar in Nanganallur. Police said that after starting the bus, the youth travelled straight down Grand Southern Trunk, turned right at the Cement Road signal at Pazhavanthangal and passed through the Thillaiganga Nagar subway. He then drove the vehicle through Medavakkam Main Road, reached the Medavakkam junction, came to Sholinganallur and drove straight to Kelambakkam, where he turned left and travelled on the road linking ECR, where he hit the tree. Selvakumar, son of a printing press worker, has been charged under Sections 379 of theIndian Penal Code (theft) read with 102 (3) of Code of Criminal Procedure (to produce seized property to the court).
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