Title: Cops go bananas over jewel thief
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Blog Entry: Kolkata, Aug 4 (IANS) Police in Kolkata have thought of an ingenious way to retrieve a gold necklace swallowed by a thief - by making him gorge on bananas till he emits it the natural way!Kolkata, Aug 4 (IANS) Police in Kolkata have thought of an ingenious way to retrieve a gold necklace swallowed by a thief - by making him gorge on bananas till he emits it the natural way! Mohsin alias Jainal has been made to swallow 36 bananas till late Friday, but so far the police have not been able to recover the precious piece of jewellery. Not willing to give up, they have placed orders for more bananas, media reports said. Mohsin had snatched the gold chain worth Rs.45,000 from Kiran Bahari, a resident of Lower Rawdon Street in central Kolkata. But he was caught by residents and handed over to the police. A trader in the vicinity said he had seen Mohsin popping the chain into his mouth. Cops searched his mouth but the booty could not be found. Police then took him to the Medical College Hospital where an X-ray revealed the necklace lodged in his oesophagus. Police then forced him to puke, but the necklace slid deeper into his alimentary system. Finding no other alternative, the cops approached doctors who recommended using a natural purgative - bananas. 'Mohsin was initially reluctant to eat the bananas, but we told him that doctors would cut him open to recover the chain. He immediately wolfed down the bananas at one go,' said Ajoy Kumar, the deputy commissioner of police (detective department).
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