Six males have been arrested in Mumbai, India, after trying to steal 2,000 finisher medals at Sunday’s Tata Mumbai Marathon, beneath the mistaken perception that they’d (actually) struck gold.
The six males have been employed as labourers to help in putting in tents and banners alongside the race course. The deputy commissioner of police knowledgeable The Hindustan Occasions that the group believed the medals held substantial worth.
Their grand plan hit a pace bump when just a few eagle-eyed native cops caught them hauling giant bins out of varied tents. Upon confrontation, the officers discovered that the bins contained the Mumbai Marathon medals. The Hindustan Occasions reported that the lads had collected 22 of the 160 bins, totalling 2,200 medals, which have been loaded into a close-by car. The police arrested the six people concerned on Sunday, charging them with theft.
Opposite to the thieves’ assumption that the medals have been product of gold, most race-finisher medals are comprised of varied metallic alloys, and have minimal worth. In accordance with race organizers, the stolen medals have a price of 138 rupees (round $2).
(It’s value noting that even Olympic gold medals, whereas priceless of their significance, are primarily composed of silver, then plated with a minimal of six grams of precise gold, however their market worth is simply round $750, primarily based on present metallic costs.)
No metropolis like Mumbai on the third Sunday of January. The Mumbai marathon isn’t just a sports activities occasion however a motion.. to have practically 60,000 individuals working.. elevating greater than 60 crores in charity. That is what REAL India is about (or should be) : placing the frequent citizen and… pic.twitter.com/AhIK0478NQ
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) January 21, 2024
The 2024 Tata Mumbai Marathon is among the largest races globally and holds the excellence of being the biggest marathon in Asia, attracting greater than 50,000 contributors yearly. The race organizers confirmed that each participant who crossed the end line ended up receiving a medal.
