Gambler ends vice with ‘dayro’ at chowki

Rajkot: Not all criminals have a change of heart after stepping inside the police station, but this gambler surely found his ‘moral’ mojo inside the Muli police station of Surendranagar district on Thursday.
The accused took a novel route — the ‘dayro’ way — to permanently dismember vice from his life.
In fact, the other face of gambling accused Jaymant Dave surfaced, when a video, in which he is seen singing and playing a harmonium inside the police sub-inspector’s D J Zala’s chamber, with the officer listening to the crooner in rapt attention went viral on WhatsApp and social media.
According to the details of the incident, Dave was named as an accused in a gambling case where cops had raided a den in Sara village of Muli taluka on Tuesday. But Dave had absconded at the time of the raid.
On Thursday, Dave, however, surrendered before Muli police station and obtained a bail also. During the police paper work, he happened to mention to Zala that he actually was a folk singer. And to prove his words, Dave burst out into a folk song dedicated to the goddess, in a lilting voice that could keep the audience glued. At least it did charm Zala, who pulled his chair closer and let him continue to sing the dayro, full length.
“As he started singing, I did not stop him. And as he identified himself as a folk singer, I also paid him Rs 1,000. At this, Dave apologized to me saying that he would never indulge in gambling again,” Zala told TOI.