Pune: Unknown persons stole manual/paper tickets worth Rs26,740 from the PMPML’s Swargate bus depot sometime around 1.50 pm on Saturday.A bus conductor, Pralhad Dhakane (44) of Phursungi, lodged a complaint with Swargate police saying the unidentified person picked up the tray containing paper tickets and fled.Senior inspector Yashwant Nikam of Swargate police said, “The ticket tray was found abandoned at the PMPML bus stop at JM Road. A passenger picked it up and handed it to the PMPML officers there. The PMPML officials said they conducted a thorough search at the Swargate depot and in the stationary buses before approaching the police with the complaint of theft.”Nikam said the unidentified person picked up tickets of the bus plying between Swargate and Hadapsar. “We suspect someone stole the tray of the tickets and after realising it was of no use to him or her, it was abandoned at the bus stop on JM Road.”
