Police later recovered the gold jewellery after checking the CCTV footage
A bag containing gold jewellery worth Rs 5 lakhs was recovered from the clutches of rats who were holed up in a Mumbai drain, the police said.
Police said the jewellery belonged to 45-year-old Sundari Planibel who works as a domestic help in Goregaon's Gokuldham Colony.
On her way to the bank to deposit her jewellery, she gave her bag of vada pav to two children.
"When Ms Planibel reached the bank she realised she had kept her jewellery in the same bag," said Chandrakant Gharge, Sub Inspector, Dindoshi.
Ms Planibel tried looking for the children in the same area, but couldn't find them. She then approached the police and sought their help to find her jewellery.
The police traced the children and their mother, who told them that they had thrown the bag into a garbage dump since they did not want to eat vada pav.
"Police later recovered the gold jewellery after checking the CCTV footage which showed a few rats taking the bag of gold from the garbage dump to a gutter," Mr Gharge said.