Cops hunt for gold on this rat race | Mumbai information

Mumbai: When Sundari Planibal, a home employee, misplaced her life’s financial savings within the type of gold jewellery on Wednesday morning, little did she assume {that a} group of sewer rats would result in their retrieval 10 hours later.

Planibal had unwittingly given the gold away to a homeless lady because it was in the identical packet as some leftover bread. The girl didn’t discover the gold both and dumped the packet in a dustbin. After Planibal filed a police criticism, a workforce of law enforcement officials scoured via CCTV footage within the space till they discovered the important clue: rats dragging a packet inside a drain in Aarey Milk Colony. Cops finally recovered the packet from the identical drain – the bread was nibbled on, however the gold was untouched.

A resident of Prem Nagar close to Aarey Milk Colony, Planibal wished to mortgage the gold — a set of chains and a few rings price round 5 lakh — to pay for her daughter’s upcoming wedding ceremony.

On Wednesday afternoon, Planibal went to work at her employer’s dwelling in Prem Nagar. When her work was accomplished at 2 pm, her employer gave her a plastic bag containing some bread and requested her to provide it to a homeless individual on her method to the financial institution situated in the identical locality in Goregaon east. Planibal, who walked to the financial institution, put her ornaments within the plastic bag and set off.

On her approach, she discovered a girl begging on the roadside along with her kids, and gave them the polythene bag with the bread — and her ornaments — inside. She realized her mistake solely after reaching the financial institution, quarter-hour later. “I didn’t know what to do. I ran to the spot the place I had discovered the lady however she was not there,” Planibal mentioned.

She then hastened to the Dindoshi police station to register a lacking valuables criticism. The police officer on responsibility heard her out and knowledgeable his senior. “Inside 10 minutes we had a workforce in place who went to the spot to search for the lady. After asking a number of individuals together with auto drivers and passers-by, they came upon that the lady lived in Prem Nagar,” mentioned PSI Dr Chandrakant Gharge.

The police workforce additionally scanned the CCTV footage within the space. They discovered the homeless lady and traced her to an space a couple of kilometer away from Planibal’s financial institution. When the cops reached the lady, she mentioned that the bread was exhausting and inedible and she or he had thrown it within the dustbin within the neighborhood.

Officers pored over CCTV footage from three to 4 cameras till that they had a breakthrough 4 hours later. “We noticed some rats drag the plastic bag down a drain close by. Once we searched the drain, we discovered it. The rats had chewed on the bread however left the gold untouched,” mentioned Gharge.

“I’m grateful to the police who recovered my lifetime financial savings,” mentioned Planibal, who’s a single mom, and has been working as a home assist in homes within the Gokuldham space for the previous 15 years.