AHMEDABAD: An Ellisbridge resident on Friday filed a complaint of theft with

police, stating an unknown person had on Thursday night stolen gold biscuits weighing 600g worth Rs 24 lakh from him, in Manekchowk, when he was scratching all over his body due to a severe itching sensation.

In his FIR with Khadia police, Chandrakant Vaidya, 53, a resident of Arbuda Apartments in Ellisbridge, states that he works for a company named

Bullion Refinery in Khokhra. His job is to get gold biscuits from various firms and his firm makes gold bars of it and returns it.

On Thursday night, Vaidya's employer called him to get gold biscuits from two bullion traders in Manekchowk. Vaidya went to their shops and collected 600g of gold and kept it wrapped inside a white coloured cloth bag. He hanged the bag on the hook on the scooter near his feet.

Ten minutes later, as he was driving through the lanes of Manekchowk, he suddenly started feeling an itching sensation all over his body near Dhal ni Pol. It was so severe that he had to stop and scratch himself.

Vaidya's colleague, Chandresh Patel came there on his scooter and stopped on seeing Vaidya scratching. Vaidya told Patel to take the bag with gold biscuits and give it to the office. Patel refused, and told Vaidya to follow him to Ghanchini Pol.

Although Vaidya tried to follow Patel on his scooter, but he could not control himself, stopped his scooter and began scratching. An unknown man came there and offered help. The man, then, took a water bottle from near Vaidya's foot rest, poured water over Vaidya and went away.

After a while, Vaidya got some relief but found that the bag containing the gold was missing.

Vaidya tried to look for the bag but could not find it. He then called his employer, Piyush Thakkar, and filed a police complaint.

Khadia police registered a case of theft and began an investigation by gathering CCTV footage of the area.