Mumbai: Rat runs away with Rs 5 lakh worth of gold

Woman accidentally gives away valuables to beggar, triggering a wild chase. Police say the beggar who found the packet, only saw the stale pav in it and threw the whole thing in the dust bin, without looking at what else it contained

Updated On: 2022-06-17 01:18 PM IST

Illustrations/Uday Mohite

Sundari Planibel’s employer gave her vada pav in a packet, asking her to give it to some poor person.  Planibel kept it in the bag in which she had carried her jewellery

On leaving her employer’s house, Planibel spotted a beggar sitting with her children. She handed over her bag to the woman, forgetting about the jewellery in it

As the pav was stale and hard, the beggar woman who was going somewhere in a rickshaw, threw the bag onto a pile of garbage on the road

At the bank, Planibel realised she did not have the bag of gold jewellery. She wanted to mortgage the jewellery to repay loans taken for her daughter’s wedding

She went to Dindoshi police who located the beggar, and after her claim, spent over four hours on CCTV footage at the garbage pile to find the bag that rats dragged to a gutter

The police gave the bag to Planibel. She was full of gratitude for them. Somnath Gharge, DCP, Zone XII said they worked hard to find it

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