He is Susant, Badal, Mantu and Rohit. Even his father has an alias. Meet Manoj Patra, a driver by vocation and car thief by profession.
Chandrasekharpur Police who nabbed Manoj on Saturday seized three cars from him, a Toyota Innova, a Hyundai Verna and a Tata Indigo. The Verna belonged to former minister Anjali Behera.
Handsome and charming, Manoj would befriend drivers before fleeing with their cars. He had walked into a car showroom and on the pretext of test drive, fled with a car. He had engaged his cars in a travel agency and managed to evade police notice.
When he was arrested, a dozen or more ladies, claiming to be his girlfriends, arrived at the police station to query about him leaving the police amused.