In what may be called a cruel twist of fate, a thief suffered a heart attack after not being able to contain his joy on finding out that the money he had robbed was a lot more than what he had expected.
As if the heart attack was not enough to put a damper on his spirits, a large part of the haul was spent on his treatment.
The incident , which took place in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor, came to light when one of the two thieves was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the theft committed last month in the Kotwali Dehat area. The accused confessed his crimes to the police during the interrogation.
Dharam Veer Singh, the Bijnor Superintendent of Police, said that two thieves broke into a public service centre owned by one Nawab Haider on the intervening night of February 16 and 17.
Following a complaint lodged by Haider, over ₹7 lakh was stolen from the centre. The police had registered a case against the unidentified accused and launched a probe.
On Wednesday, police claimed to have cracked the case with the arrest of two accused, Naushad and Ejaz, both in their early 30s, from Alipur under the Nagina police station area.
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