A toilet break of merely 10 minutes cost a man whooping Rs 2.8 Lakh…… Can’t believe it?
The incident took place on Monday when, prior to start a journey by bus, Ashok Sitaram Vaishnav, a 40-yr old Dhankawdi businessman, took a toilet break.
The man lost his bag in a bus which contained Rs. 2.8 lakhs and all this happened when he went to toilet. Ashok who belongs from Shelarnagar, is the owner of a nail polish manufacturing unit at Vasai (East). He was dropped at Balajinagar at 4.30am by his wife; from there he took an auto rickshaw for Swargate and then took a Swargate-Wada bus for Vasai at 5:30 am.
As per police, Ashok kept his small bag and clothes on the overhead shelf and went to loo which is in the premises of bus stand. However, when he came back after 10 minutes, his bag was seen nowhere. He searched for it at every place and also inquired with the conductor as well as other passengers but his bag was not found.
He instantly called his wife and told her everything and asked her to send his brother-in-law Hitesh to the bus stand. With Hitesh, he went to Swargate police station and lodged a complaint of bag-lifting.
Sandesh Kenjale, the Assistant inspector and Swargate police station’s in-charge of the detection branch, along with his team is working on the case for bringing back Ashok’s bag and money.