Lucknow: Even an item of slippers is valuable for thieves these days. A man’s slipper was stolen when he went inside the Bhairav temple to worship and the Kanpur police lodged a case. The strange case pertains to the filing of an FIR by a City man about the stolen slippers. Kantilal Nigam, who lives in the Dabauli area of Kanpur, works in an Electronic company.
He visited the City’s famous Bhairav Baba temple on Sunday. Before going for darshan, he took off his slippers outside the shop selling worship material. When he returned, he found his brand new slippers to be stolen.
Kantilal first searched for his slippers nearby, when he could not find them anywhere, he lodged an e-FIR.
Complainant Kantilal said, “I had bought new blue colour slippers two days ago. I come every Sunday to worship Bhairav Baba as Sunday is the auspicious day of Bhairav Baba’s darshan. It was when I came out of the temple I found my new pair of slippers stolen. Later, I lodged an e-FIR as I believe the thief should not get away with it.” An investigation official said, “The temple has CCTV cameras and we are checking the footage. For now, an FIR has been registered under IPC 379 ( theft) ” He added, the bill for the purchase of slippers has been asked from the person who lodged the FIR. “We are in the process of tracing the thief,” he added.
