Bizarre incidents surprise us now and then. I often wonder life would have had no color had there been no offbeat happenings that evoke awe and amusement. One such took place in the city yesterday.
It all started when a petty thief after successfully snatching a gold necklace from an old lady was caught by a hotfooting constable day before yesterday. Mohasin the thief then preferred to swallow it thinking that his act would go undetected.
That was not to be. The police took him to a hospital where an X-ray revealed what they thought had actually happened. The necklace was nestling inside his stomach.
The hard part now followed. Realizing that no amount of beating would fetch them the necklace, the police paid heed to what the doctors said. “Make him eat bananas”, prescribed the doctors, “till the thing comes out with his stool.”
3 dozen ripe bananas were purchased at government expense, and though Mohasin was eager to partake a few being hungry, he turned down the proposal to eat all of them. It was now police’s turn to tell him that unless he took the bananas, he would be taken to hospital where his stomach would be ‘cut’ to take out the necklace.
That did the trick. Mohasin started taking the bananas, and in course of a full evening ate the whole lot. Rice, rotis as much as he could be made to somehow swallow followed thereafter.
Now started the long wait for Mohasin responding to nature’s call. A constable was allotted duty to keep him company through the night.
Nearly 24 hours passed till ultimately Mohasin excreted the necklace on his third trip to the loo. Who but he was made to clean it himself and make it free of unsavory smell before the police took it for safe custody.
With relief visible on everyone’s face including Mohasin’s, he took the opportunity pleading for releasing him. The police however maintained it would do as the law says. Which is to produce him and the necklace in the court tomorrow to hear what the judge has to say.
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