‘BUNTY CHOR’ FOUND GUILTY OF BURGLARY BY KERALA COURT
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A local court on Wednesday found notorious criminal Devinder Singh alias Bunty Chor guilty in a case relating to the burglary at the house of an NRI businessman in the state’s capital.
It will announce the quantum of punishment on April 22.
Bunty, who has been involved in more than 500 theft cases and managed to give police the slip on several occasions, had burgled NRI businessman Venugopalan Nair’s high-security home in 2013.
He had cut through the bulletproof glass door, deactivated two security alarms and close circuit television cameras and fled with an SUV worth ₹25 lakh, a laptop, two mobile phones, a gold ring and ₹2,000 in cash.
Though he deactivated the security alarm, one of the cameras hidden behind a door captured his image that helped Kerala police to pinpoint him.
He later abandoned the stolen SUV near Bengaluru the next day and was arrested from Pune two days later with the help of Maharashtra police.
During interrogation, he reportedly told the police that he had stolen the car to take revenge on well-known Bollywood director Dibakar Banerjee who based his film ‘Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye’ on his life in 2008.
The super thief has hundreds of cases against him in different states across the country.
Bunty also took part in the television reality show Bigg Boss in 2010 when he was out on bail. MUMBAI: Eman Ahmed, the Egyptian woman who came to India in February for treatment, has lost 242 kg, said Dr Muffazal Lakdawala, the doctor heading the team treating her.
A little over a month after she was put on a special diet, which was followed by a surgery on March 7, the 36-year-old now weighs 262kg — an improvement that has also helped her organs function better.
Dr Lakdawala said the extent of the post-surgical recovery was beyond his expectations. “The surgery (Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy) and a special diet has helped her lose 242kg (or 50%) since she landed in India.”
The sudden weight loss is surprising for her doctors because they were expecting a slow drop. Last month, Dr Lakdawala had said after the surgery: “The initial improvement will be because of rapid water loss... we think she will lose another 20-30 kg a month over the next few months.” But the rapid improvement of Iman, who weighed 504 kg when she came to India, has left her doctors pleased.
The weight loss, said doctors, had also dramatically improved her health — Eman’s heart, kidneys and lungs are functioning better and her water retention levels were under control, the doctors said. “There is a spectacular improvement in her kidneys. Her creatinine levels were 3.7 mg/dL when she came to us. It is now down to 1 mg/dL,” said Dr Hemal Shah, head of the Nephrology department and one of the doctors treating her.
Creatinine levels show how healthy a person’s kidneys are. Most women have between 0.5 to 1.1 mg/dL of creatinine.
Eman, however, continues to be paralysed on the right side. “She is suffering occasional seizures. We think it is because of the brain stroke she suffered. We will check her brain with a CT scan,” said one of the doctors.