Police in Bengaluru with the help of doctors have successfully deployed an unusual technique to retrieve a gold chain that a thief had swallowed after a failed attempt to run away with it.
The dramatic incident took place in MT Street near KR Market, central Bengaluru, on Saturday night, Deccan Herald reported.
Doctors force-fed laxative and bananas to a chain snatcher who had, reportedly, swallowed a gold chain in an attempt to not get caught by the police.??
A woman named Hema, was wearing a gold chain weighing more than 70 grams?when a gang of three men waylaid her around 8.50 pm.?
It is reported that one of the suspects named Vijay tried to snatch Hema's chain but she managed to hold onto it with one hand.?Even though she fell after being attacked by the man, she didn't let him go and managed to draw the attention of?two passersby.
Even though Vijay managed to get the gold chain from Hema's hands, he found himself in an inescapable position in the narrow and crowded street. But just before he was beaten mercilessly by the?public,?he swallowed the metal chain.
However, after being taken to the KR Market police station, inspector BG Kumaraswamy asked his officers to take the thief to a hospital as he was badly injured due to the heavy beating he received.
It is believed that the cops didn't know the about chain until Vijay was taken to the hospital. Even the owner thought the chain had fallen somewhere in the streets.
The story took an unexpected twist?after?an?X-ray showed a metal object inside?his body.
Initially, the thief?argued with the cops and doctors that the object was a bone he had swallowed. But the cops didn't believe him and asked the doctors to give him a laxative called Enema and some bananas to excrete the chain.
The chain eventually came out through faeces.
Regardless, how horrid it sounds, this isn't the only chain snatching retrieval that involved laxatives and bananas.??
In 2016,?the Mumbai police had to resort to similar recourse to recover a swallowed gold chain from a thief. ?Police had ordered a basketful of bananas and force-fed him four dozen bananas after an X-Ray showed the metallic object lodged inside his stomach. Later, police ordered him to wash it with phenyl and placed him under arrest. He was produced before a magistrate and remanded to custody.
Interestingly, it was not the first time Mumbai police had used this technique in order to recover a stolen item.
In 2015, a chain was retrieved after a thief was made to eat two-dozen bananas and drink several litres of milk laced with laxatives.