Machinery, Medical equipment worth Rs 53 lakh stolen from Thane hospital; FIR lodged

Thane: Machinery and medical equipment worth Rs 53.61 lakh was stolen from a private hospital in Thane city of Maharashtra, police said on Thursday.

The incident took place in Sapphire Hospital at Kharegaon in Kalwa between 6.30 pm on January 9 and 2 pm the next day, they said.

The case was filed under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 454, 457 (both pertaining to house-trespass or house-breaking) and 380 (theft), he said, adding that efforts to identify and nab the offenders were being made.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a laptop containing confidential information was allegedly stolen from the offices of a private hospital's blood bank, police said. According to a complaint filed by Dr Sangeeta Agarwal, head of the blood bank at the Fortis Memorial Research Institute, the laptop was stolen from her office on August 5. “The laptop contained official and confidential data of the blood bank,” Agarwal said in her complaint.

An FIR under Section 380 (theft in dwelling house, etc) of the Indian Penal Code was registered on the basis of her complaint at Sushant Lok police station on Monday, the police said.