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Police
in Miumbai fed a man more than 40 bananas in a day to retrieve a gold chain he
had stolen and swallowed (Image courtesy of National Research Centre for Banana
www.nrcb.res.in)
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Indian police
successfully deployed an unusual technique to retrieve a gold chain that a
thief had swallowed while officers were in hot pursuit -- they force-fed him
more than 40 bananas.
AFP report continues:
The
man denied snatching the chain from a woman in the street in Mumbai and
swallowed it in a desperate bid to conceal his crime last week, but hospital
X-rays suggested otherwise.
Police
in the western Indian city administered an enema which failed to yield the
desired result.
Doctors
said an operation would be the best way forward, but police officers decided it
would be too expensive and opted instead for the bananas.
"He
was fed more than 40 bananas throughout the day," Mumbai police Senior
Inspector Shankar Dhanavade told AFP.
"Eventually
the chain was found. We made him wash and disinfect it," the policeman
added.
The
25-year-old man appeared in court on Friday and is in police custody, said
Dhanavade.
According
to reports, it was not the first time Mumbai police had turned to the fruit in
order to recover a stolen item.
In
July last year a chain was retrieved after a thief was made to eat two dozen
bananas and drink several litres of milk laced with laxatives, the Hindustan
Times reported.
Months
earlier in April, a thief was fed five dozen bananas after swallowing a gold
chain with a large pendant.
The thief successfully
excreted the loot. But the disgusted victim refused to touch it and instead
took it to a jeweller in a plastic bag, the newspaper said.
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