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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was nothing daring, but certainly an enterprising way to be with his wife. Dinoop, 30, stole a private bus parked at the bus stand near Kozhikode on Saturday night. He went on to cover four districts in Kerala, but on Sunday morning failed to convince police who stopped him at the famed Kumarakom tourist destination.
On Tuesday, Dinoop was cooling his heels at a jail in Kozhikode after he was remanded to judicial custody, said a police official attached to the Kuttiyadi police station from where the bus was stolen.
The story that Dinoop gave to police is that he wanted to be with his wife and child at Thiruvalla in Pathanamthitta district. He was unable to travel from Kozhikode to Thiruvalla — a distance of around 270km — due to the lockdown. Seeing a private bus parked and with none around, he got into it and managed to start it and finding the fuel tank full, began to drive to his desired location.