Mumbai police force-feed thief dozens of bananas


Police in Miumbai fed a man more than 40 bananas in a day to retrieve a gold chain he had stolen and swallowed. - AFP/File / Pablo Cozzaglio

Mumbai (AFP) - 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.

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.

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