Jind: Thief who stole a bag containing over 1,700 doses of COVID-19 vaccine from a authorities hospital in Haryana’s Jind district on Wednesday night time returned it with a not which stunned everybody.
The thief left the doses at a tea stall outdoors Jind Civil Lines police station with a word.
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Sorry, I did not understand it was medicines for corona,” the thief wrote in Hindi in the note attached to the returned bag full of Covishield and Covaxin doses
A total of 1,270 doses of Covishield and 440 doses of Covaxin were stolen from the hospital, SHO of Civil Lines police station Rajender Singh said on Thursday.
The matter came to light after a sanitation worker of the hospital found the locks of the store and deep freezer broken this morning.
“The accused didn’t contact another vaccine, medication, money, and many others. within the retailer,” Singh said.
Later, a man came on a motorcycle and left the vaccines at a tea stall outside the Civil Lines police station. He told people at the stall that the package contained food for a police official at the station, the officer said.
“It is feasible that he needed to steal another vaccine or drug and returned what he had stolen after studying that it wasn’t that,” Singh said.
A case has been registered in connection with the incident, he said.
“We have gotten some clues and hope to make an arrest quickly,” he stated.
Police have registered a case below Sections 380 and 457 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in opposition to the unknown particular person.
Earlier, Police stated two males have been caught on CCTV, breaking into the hospital’s retailer previous midnight. “We have studied the footage in which the two men are seeing breaking into three locks to reach the vaccine stock,” the spokesman stated.
(With PTI inputs)
