Thief swallows stolen ‘mangalsutra’, police send him for surgery

Madhya Pradesh police have sent a thief for surgery, after he had swallowed the stolen property. After the thief was caught by the police, the accused had swallowed the ‘mangalsutra’, a gold chain, during questioning.

It all happened when two bike-borne assailants were detained for stealing a woman’s gold chain while she was sleeping outside her house in Defence Colony on Thursday. Hearing the woman’s cries, the neighbours had called on the police and a team was dispatched to catch the criminals. After getting caught by police, one of the accused swallowed the ‘mangalsutra’ to mislead the investigation.

The police send the thief, Suraj Kumar, to a medical college where he was operated and the gold chain and some gold pearls were recovered from his belly.

This incident reminds us of Mumbai Police’s ‘operation banana’ in December 2013 where the thief was put on a banana diet to recover the mangalsutra of a women traveller on Vidarbha Express.

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The Kalyan Government Railway Police had arrested 28-year-old Damu Gupta on December 22 for snatching the mangalsutra of a women traveller on Vidarbha Express.

The cops decided to exhibit extraordinary patience after they realised that Gupta had swallowed the piece of jewellery. So they put him on a banana diet and waited. Their patience paid off around 1 am on December 26, 2013, when Gupta excreted the precious metal he had swallowed.

The cops then had a relatively easier task – to clean the 11-gm necklace. Gupta, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, snatched the gold ornament from Sheetal Kamble, who was heading to Nagpur. As Kamble raised an alarm, other passengers on the train nabbed Gupta and handed him over to the railway police.

However, when cops searched Gupta they did not find anything on him. It was then a passenger informed them that he had seen Gupta swallowing the chain. The police first took him a private hospital in Dombivli where an X-ray report proved inconclusive.