Ishan Deep Makkar had finished his night shift and was about to leave for home.
He was with his contractor discussing some last minute things when he heard someone starting his car which was parked in the driveway.
Ishan and the owner ran outside only to see the vehicle being driven away by someone unknown to him.
‘I ran after the car, but it sped away,’ says Ishan.
He was aghast. It was not just the car he had lost right before his eyes.
‘I was supposed to pay my college fee. There were over 2000 dollars in my bag which I had borrowed and saved. It had my passport, cards and other documents too,’ Ishan told SBS Hindi.
He immediately called the police.
‘Police came in five minutes. My car had been stolen five minutes back, and I thought it could be tracked down, but the police told me there was a process to follow,’ claims Ishan.
He filed a report with the Preston police station in Melbourne, Victoria.
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20-year-old Ishan is a student studying cookery at a local institute in Melbourne.
Hailing from Bathinda in Punjab, Ishan had been working as a cleaner and cook to pay his fees.
‘Any international student can understand what this loss means to me. I had bought this car for nearly 4000 dollars some six months back. I do not know how long will it take for me to recover,’ Ishan said.
According to a report by the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council out of 52,858 cars stolen in Australia in 2017 almost one third were in Victoria.
A total of 15,332 vehicles were stolen from Victorian streets, the highest in the country. NSW stood second with 12,216 stolen cars.
