Published 12:06 IST, June 12th 2019

Karnataka police swings into action after a TikTok video of a 21-year-old performing dangerous bike stunts with a girl goes viral

Recently, a jaw-dropping TikTok video of a 21-year-old performing dangerous stunts while riding a motorbike with a girl on pillion went viral.

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Recently, a jaw-dropping TikTok video of a 21-year-old performing dangerous stunts while riding a motorbike with a girl on pillion went viral. Shortly after video went viral, a special police team tracked down rider and put him behind bars. Last week, a TikTok video of a 21-year-old or Ahmed, a resident of Yelahanka, performing extremely dangerous stunts while riding a motorbike me rounds on social media.

In video, or was seen performing death-defying stunts without wearing a helmet or any or protective hegear. Soon after video went viral, a special police team launched a search operation to track down or and put him in jail.

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According to reports, or is studying Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) at Yelahanka Government First Gre College. In video, or was seen carelessly standing only on his right foot and performing wheelie riding a motorbike at 80kmph speeds. In what could be even more shocking, or was performing all se stunts while his female companion was riding pillion without wearing a helmet.

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girl held onto or's right leg to prevent from falling backwards. Cops learnt that or could t afford a two-wheeler. He learnt to perform stunts by borrowing scooter from friends and he would often take his friend's scooter out to perform stunts and wheelies.

“For close to 10 months, he would go with friends on weekends and train to do wheelies with m for up to three hours each day. Sometimes y would train on weekdays too. He hooked up with or stunt riders and practised till he believed that he was an expert,” police officer was quoted.

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Upon being questioned about girl in video, or reportedly said he did t kw her well.

“He said he only knew that her name was Veda. or Ahmed said that girl was impressed by his skills and, on day y filmed stunt, she came up to him and volunteered to be part of shoot,” Police officer was quoted.

Police tracked down scooter through its number and found out that it belongs to or's friend Imran Khan. Police caught hold of Imran Khan who led Police to or Ahmed.

12:06 IST, June 12th 2019