Gold Worth Rs 5 Lakh Recovered From Rats In Gutter In Mumbai
Officer Suraj Raut scanned the CCTV footage of the area in which he spotted the child and his mother. The police traced the children and their mother, who told them that they had thrown the bag into a garbage dump since they did not want to eat vada pav.
In a bizarre incident reported from Mumbai, cops recovered gold worth Rs 5 lakh from the clutches of rats in a drain.
What had happened?
Police said the jewellery belonged to 45-year-old Sundari Planibel who works as a domestic servant in Goregaon's Gokuldham Colony. The police recovered 10 told gold (approximately 100 grams) jewellery after checking the CCTV footage which showed a few rats taking a bag of gold from a garbage dump into a gutter, the SI said.
Maharashtra: 10 tola gold worth Rs 5 lakhs recovered from clutches of rats in a gutter near Gokuldham Colony, Mumbai
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A woman on her way to deposit jewellery in a bank gave it away to children on street, mistaking it to be bread; children threw it into garbage dump...:SI C Gharge pic.twitter.com/Vj7uxaUJdk
How did it happen?
On her way to the bank to deposit her jewellery, she gave her bag of vada pav to two children. When Planibel reached the bank she realised she had kept her jewellery in the same bag. Planibel tried looking for the children in the same area, but couldn't find them.
She then approached the police and sought their help to find her jewellery. Dindoshi Police team chief Suraj Raut immediately started investigating the matter.
How the the cops find the gold?
Officer Suraj Raut scanned the CCTV footage of the area in which he spotted the child and his mother. The police traced the children and their mother, who told them that they had thrown the bag into a garbage dump since they did not want to eat vada pav.
When the police examined the CCTV footage installed near that garbage dump, it was found that the bag police were looking for was in the possession of a rat. The police chased the rat but it jumped into a nearby gutter.
"Police later recovered the gold jewellery after checking the CCTV footage which showed a few rats taking the bag of gold from the garbage dump to a gutter," Gharge said. The police eventually found the bag with the gold ornaments intact.
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