For a few days, the Matunga police had to rummage through the sundry items of a dumping ground, in the hope of finding a bag full of gold and silver, that had apparently found its way there after a sweeper mistook it for refuse and tossed it in a municipal garbage van. Or so she said. The incident that drove the cops to the ground occurred on May 12, when Hiten Popatlal Jain (25), a resident of Sonawila Road, Parsi Colony, Matunga came home from a bank in the neighbourhood around 10 am.

Lost and found: 1. Hiten forgets the bag of bullion outside his house.
2. When his father, Popatlal, comes home and asks about it, he realises that he has lost it.u00a0
3. Cops speculate that the sweeper must have taken it. The sweeper, Maya Singh, says she dumped the bag in the garbage-collecting van, thinking it was a bag of trash.
4. Cops trace the bag to Deonar dumping ground, scan the entire area, but in vain.
5. Cops find out that the sweeper has not reported to work since the incident. She later confesses to the theft. Cops recover the valuables.u00a0