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Varanasi thief dances, bathes, drinks coffee, steals Rs 5-lakh bike
A man broke into a KTM showroom in Varanasi's Manduadih area late Monday night, spent hours dancing, bathing, and making coffee inside, then stole a KTM Adventure 390 S bike worth Rs…
The Story in Brief
A man broke into a KTM showroom in Varanasi's Manduadih area late Monday night, spent hours dancing, bathing, and making coffee inside, then stole a KTM Adventure 390 S bike worth Rs 5 lakh before riding away. CCTV footage showed the suspect arriving around 11.30 pm, cutting through a glass door during heavy rain, and finally entering the showroom at 12.06 am.
Once inside, he used the computer, drank water from a mini-fridge, made coffee, bathed in the washroom, tore a bike cover into a lungi-like garment, and danced to music. He also took a showroom T-shirt and cap. Showroom manager Rohit Kumar Singh reported the theft after the security guard alerted him about the damaged door. Police have registered an FIR and formed teams to trace the suspect, based on Singh's complaint.
The Indian Opinion
The viral 'lungi dance' CCTV has turned a straightforward theft into a meme, but the real story is a security failure: the showroom had no night guard inside, and the thief spent over 30 minutes cutting a door without detection. Both NDTV and Hindustan Times report similar sequence of events, so the facts are not in dispute. The question that matters: will Varanasi police arrest the suspect from the clear footage, or will this join the pile of cases where CCTV evidence leads nowhere? Watch for the arrest, that alone will tell you if the system works beyond viral clips.
Sources (2): ndtv.com, hindustantimes.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
