<div>It's proving to be a long wait for police here as a thief who swallowed a four-tola gold chain three days ago is yet to excrete the same, officials said on Tuesday.<div><br /></div><div>The staff at Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, are also engaged in the unpleasant job of examining the faeces of the 22-year-old chain snatcher.</div><div><br /></div><div>Police said the doctors at the government-run hospital were feeding bananas and other laxatives to the thief named Vikas to recover the chain.</div><div><br /></div><div>The youngster snatched the chain from a 55-year-old housewife when she had gone for an evening walk with her husband near Sitaphalmandi railway station on Saturday.The couple lodged a complaint with Secunderabad railway police. The same night, police found Vikas moving under suspicious circumstances at Secunderabad railway station.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fearing that he may be caught red-handed, Vikas swallowed the gold chain. Police took him to a hospital, where a scan report proved that the chain was in his stomach.</div><div><br /></div><div>Police produced the accused before a magistrate along with the scan report. On the direction of the magistrate, he was admitted to Gandhi Hospital on Sunday.</div><div><br /></div><div>A police officer said they were waiting for the man to naturally expel the chain as doctors feel that a surgery to extricate the same may prove risky.</div></div>
<div>It's proving to be a long wait for police here as a thief who swallowed a four-tola gold chain three days ago is yet to excrete the same, officials said on Tuesday.<div><br /></div><div>The staff at Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, are also engaged in the unpleasant job of examining the faeces of the 22-year-old chain snatcher.</div><div><br /></div><div>Police said the doctors at the government-run hospital were feeding bananas and other laxatives to the thief named Vikas to recover the chain.</div><div><br /></div><div>The youngster snatched the chain from a 55-year-old housewife when she had gone for an evening walk with her husband near Sitaphalmandi railway station on Saturday.The couple lodged a complaint with Secunderabad railway police. The same night, police found Vikas moving under suspicious circumstances at Secunderabad railway station.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fearing that he may be caught red-handed, Vikas swallowed the gold chain. Police took him to a hospital, where a scan report proved that the chain was in his stomach.</div><div><br /></div><div>Police produced the accused before a magistrate along with the scan report. On the direction of the magistrate, he was admitted to Gandhi Hospital on Sunday.</div><div><br /></div><div>A police officer said they were waiting for the man to naturally expel the chain as doctors feel that a surgery to extricate the same may prove risky.</div></div>