WATCH HOW THIS VIRAL THIEF WHO GOT STUCK IN HIS OWN HOLE

(The Quiver) : Greed made a thief to stuck in the hole he had made for stealing . A video of this incident is going viral in social media platforms. A thief in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district, got stuck in a hole he had drilled in the wall of a temple for stealing ornaments .

Andhra Pradesh | A thief got stuck in a wall hole after stealing silver from Jami Yellamma Temple in Srikakulam

Robbery case registered against him for stealing 9 gms silver from the temple. He was caught red-handed after he failed to escape from the hole…: SI Chiranjeevi pic.twitter.com/MD46GHZdTX
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2022

The 30-year-old man after looting the ornaments of the Jami Ellama temple, in attempt of escaping out of the wall opening , got stuck. He then started crying for help, which alerted the workers on a nearby farm. The thief is identified as R Papa Rao by the police.

The locals narrating the Rao’s situation said that he was seen hanging out of the narrow wall opening from the waist up and was pleading to them to pull him out . The man recording the video is heard saying that the man did this “out of greed” and “now can’t get in or go out”.

They being unable to pull him out and called the police. The cops got the temple opened and pushed the man from the other end of the wall opening. After being freed, he was taken into custody.

The police said that the ornaments Rao was trying to steal had nine grams of silver. “He was stuck for about 15 minutes. We went and got him out and took him into custody,” said sub-inspector Chiranjeevi.

Rao has been booked under Sections 454 (trespassing or breaking-in) and 380 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He already has a few property-related cases pending against him.