Stray Dog Steals Rs 4 Lakh Jewellery Bag From MP Hospital
CCTV footage helped police track a stray dog that carried away a woman's bag from a hospital's surgical ward.
A stray dog was caught on CCTV carrying away a woman's jewellery bag from the surgical ward of a hospital in Madhya Pradesh, prompting an unusual police search that ended with the recovery of the valuables intact.
The woman, identified as Lata Bai, a resident of Kayampur, approached the Kotwali police after realising that her bag had disappeared. She had brought the jewellery to the hospital because she was worried about leaving it at home while staying there with her son.
According to police, the bag contained gold and silver jewellery worth approximately Rs 4 lakh, around Rs 2,000 in cash and some food items. The valuables included a gold mangalsutra, earrings, gold beads, silver anklets and other jewellery.
CCTV footage showed a stray dog entering the hospital's surgical ward and approaching the bag. The animal picked up the bag in its mouth and walked out of the ward, carrying it away from the hospital premises.
After receiving the complaint, police began tracking the bag's movements through CCTV cameras installed at different locations. Instead of following the trail of a suspected human thief, officers were effectively tracing the movements of a stray dog that appeared to have been attracted to the bag.
Police eventually located the bag and recovered it intact. The unusual incident has since drawn attention to the presence of stray dogs inside hospital premises, as well as questions over security arrangements in wards where patients and their families keep personal belongings.