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Couple files FIR after their belongings worth Rs 60,000 are stolen from the locker room of a reputed city hospital

Charkop resident Mahendra Sawant, 42, registered a First Information Report (FIR) on May 23 against an unknown person after gold ornaments belonging to his wife Bhagyashree, 39, went missing from the locker room of Dr Balabhai Nanavati Hospital in Vile Parle (West). Sawant had accompanied his wife, who was suffering from chest pain, to the hospital for an MRI scan at 3 pm last Monday.

Bhagyashree removed her ornaments before entering the scan room and handed them to her husband. Later, she called him inside since she wanted him by her side before she took take an injection. Sawant was asked by one of the doctors to keep the ornaments in a locker near the MRI scanning room. He kept a bag containing five gold rings and a mangalsutra, valued at Rs 60, 000, inside the locker, the key to which was with him.

After the scan, when Sawant opened the locker he found the ornaments missing. He informed the hospital authorities, who intimated the Santacruz police about the incident. "A robbery has occurred at the hospital and we have informed the police about the same. They are investigating the matter and we are cooperating fully with them," said Dr Ashok Hatolkar, Medical Superintendent with Nanavati Hospital.

"We have registered an FIR against an unknown person under Section 380 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) (Theft by clerk or servant of property in possession of master)," senior Police Inspector Madhukar P Chaudhari of Santacruz Police Station said. The police have begun questioning the hospital staff present in the ward when the robbery took place.

"There are no security personnel posted outside the locker room, however, doctors, nurses and ward boys are always around," Sawant told SMD. "A ward boy told me that the hospital has two sets of keys to the lockers but he didn’t reveal how many people have access to those keys," he added.