The Khadak police have launched an investigation after a scooter, which was impounded and fixed by a jammer by traffic constables on Tuesday night and parked alongside the Shivaji Road, was found missing on Wednesday morning.

　　The police suspected that the owner of the two-wheeler might have taken away his vehicle, along with the cell phone jammer.

　　However, till Thursday night, neither the vehicle nor its owners could be traced, the police said.

　　“Based on the vehicle’s registration number and information from the Regional Transport Office (RTO), our team went to the owner’s residence. However, the owner of the vehicle was not present in the residents,” a Khadak police officer said on Thursday.

　　On Tuesday night, two traffic constables had intercepted a scooter rider for driving on the wrong side of the road. The constables suspected that the scooter rider was an inebriated condition. They fixed a jammer on his two-wheeler after parking it alongside the road, the police said.

　　Early on Wednesday morning, when the police reached the spot, they found that the vehicle was missing and the GPS jammers was also nowhere to be seen.

　　The police have registered a case of theft of a jammer worth Rs2,500 and offences punishable under Motor Vehicle Act against an unknown person.