RAJKOT: This school in Gondal town near Rajkot didn’t wait for its teachers to teach burglars a lesson on hardship. As for the gang of thieves, the laborious exercise of going through each closed classroom delivered them a life’s learning that education is rich, but experience is priceless!
The school, however, didn’t let them go out empty handed — it gave them a ‘scholarship’ for all their hard work — Rs60!
They chose to target Vivekanand School for stealing and scrambled from room to room through the night to lay their hands finally on the measly reward notes, said police, adding that the thieves entered at around 11pm on Monday night and stayed there till early Tuesday morning.
“The thieves with faces covered ransacked the classrooms systematically breaking locks of rooms that were closed in the hope of finding something valuable,” said an official of Gondal police station
Tired of all the hard work, they sniffed some luck when they could enter the accountant's room, but the drawer contained the invaluable lesson of their lives in the form of few notes, probably of Rs 10 each, amounting to Rs60 in all.
Police said that two days ago, a gang of thieves had broken into five shops in the town. However, there too the exercise went in vain as they couldn’t find much valuables. A complaint was lodged by a shop owner Vijay Movaiya.
Cops are now trying to ascertain if these were the same people who entered the school.