Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan has been warning devotees to take care of their personal belongings when in Shirdi. A recorded Message warning devotees to beware of Pickpockets is aired repeatedly over the speakers in the Temple premises. Also, Message Boards Warning the same, have been placed inside & outside the Darshan waiting halls where devotees queue up.
To avoid Pickpocketing & other such untoward incidents, the Sansthan Trust has beefed up security at the Sai Temple by installing CCTV's all around the Temple Premises and a new Biometric Facial Recognition technique which can locate and alert the temple staff of the presence of thieves, pickpockets and even terrorists.
This new system will enable the uploading of pictures of such habitual offenders into the system
and whenever they come within the ambit of CCTV cameras, authorities will be alerted automatically. The Shirdi Sansthan is also in constant touch with the Shirdi Police in-order to nab such offenders who take advantage of the huge crowds standing in Queues for Darshan at the Sai Temple.
Thus, on Tuesday 11th Oct`2011, a Pickpocket was caught red handed at Shirdi's Sai Baba Temple. His entire act of Pick-pocketing inside the very Sanctum Sanctorum of the Shrine, just besides Baba's Samadhi was captured by the CCTV Cameras installed. As a result he was caught and handed over to the Shirdi Police Station where a case has been registered against him.
His Modus Operandi:
Uses a child along to push forward through the crowds as if in a hurry for Baba's Darshan while smoothly pick pockets along. After Darshan he would again be back in the Darshan Queue for the same obvious reasons. He was caught with Rs.11,000/- in cash.But due to absence of Stict-n-Stern laws, such offenders are out of prison soon and back to their work again !
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Courtesy:
Rohit Behal, Mumbai
