Attendant caught stealing in Ahmedabad

Vastrapur police on Thursday caught an attendant of a city-based hospital for stealing medicines. During a vehicle check the security guard of the hospital discovered medicines from the attendant's scooter's dickey.

Rajesh Solanki works as an attendant at SAL Hospital, near Doordarshan Tower. He stole the medicines which he tried to sell in the market.

Based on a complaint filed by Avinash Gomse, admin manger of the hospital, Vastrapur arrested Solanki, a resident of Hariom Society in Sabarmati.

Police learnt that Solanki, 34, has been working as an attendant in Sal for the last six months. After Solanki completed his duty, he left for home in his Eterno scooter at 2:30pm on Thursday.  As part of hospital policy, staff and their vehicles are checked at the exit gate of the hospital. When Solanki reached the gate, Laxman Zala, the security guard, stopped him and asked him to open the dickey of his scooter. Zala found some medicine boxes and syringes there.

After the discovery of the stolen medicines, Solanki was handed over to the Vastrapur police, where he admitted to have stolen the medicines on March 3 from the hospital's operation theatre. 

According to Solanki, he is paid Rs5,000 as salary. He has to spend a big part of it for the treatment of his ailing wife, who is suffering from diabetes. To make both ends meet, he stole the medicine boxes and syringes on March 3 and tried to sell them to a medical shop the same day. However, the shop owner refused to buy them without any bills. Since then the medicines were lying inside his dickey.