Madikeri: One person has been arrested from Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), the designated COVID Hospital of Kodagu District in Madikeri for theft of mobile phones from the Hospital. He was caught along with proof, based on information passed on to the Police by the wife of a COVID victim.
The nabbing operation was led by Kodagu Superintendent of Police Kshama Mishra, who, in the wake of many theft cases reported from the Hospital showing the Administration in poor light, raided the house of the accused and nabbed him along with the phone. He has been identified as Sumanth, a resident of Vincent Compound. He was supplying food to the patients admitted at KIMS and without their knowledge, used to steal their phones. The absence of CCTV cameras inside the Hospital made his job very easy.
