Police make chain-snatcher go under knife to retrieve jewellery
Police in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur on Thursday opted for a surgical procedure to retrieve a gold chain from a chain-snatcher’s stomach.
Two men on a motorcycle snatched a mangalsutra from 70-year-old Kalavati Yadav, who was resting in the courtyard of her house in Defence Colony, on Wednesday evening.
The police, who were informed about the incident, tracked down the two accused Suraj Dumar, 20, and Raju Thapa, 25.
But moments before they were arrested, Dumar swallowed the evidence in a desperate attempt to cover his tracks. An X-ray later revealed that the piece of jewellery was ensconced in his guts.
The Mumbai police were faced with a similar problem in 2016 and they had taken the messier banana route. They force-fed four dozen bananas to the snatcher to recover the stolen gold chain. They waited for two days before the chain slithered out of the thief’s system.
Police in Jabalpur opted for the surgical procedure on Dumar on Thursday and recovered the jewellery within five minutes.
“We consulted doctors at the Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College in Jabalpur and they assured that the operation would be safe. The surgery took five minutes and we had the evidence in our hands,” additional superintendent of police Deepak Shukla said displaying the jewellery during a press conference. He added that the accused, Dumar was fine.
“We are questioning both of them and there is evidence that they were involved in other loots as well,” Shukla said.
The district’s superintendent of police Shashikant Shukla has announced a reward of ₹10,000 to the team that nabbed the accused and recovered Kalavati Yadav’s mangalsutra.
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