ERATTUPETTA: A youth has been taken into custody for performing dangerous bike stunts in front of a KSRTC bus. The Erattupetta police apprehended the youth identified as Aaromal (19), a native of Powdikonam in Thiruvananthapuram. He reached Vagamon with his relative’s bike after his parents failed to buy him a new bike. The incident happened on the Teekoy-Erattupetta Route yesterday morning.

He was seen raising the front portion of the bike in front of the KSRTC bus. He repeated the same act several times. One of the bus passengers said that he narrowly avoided the accident while trying to swerve his bike in front of the bus. The youth was taken into custody by Erattupetta SHO Babu Sebastian and sub inspector V V Vishnu.