Thief drinks alcohol, dozes off and lands in jail

In a bizarre incident, a thief broke into a house in Raghunathpur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district but dozed off after gulping one bottle of alcohol.

When the house owner woke up to see a stranger sleeping in the couch, he called the police and the drunk thief landed in the lock up on Wednesday.

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Senior police officer Vijay Tripathi said that the man broke into the house around Tuesday midnight and saw alcohol in a shelf.

“The thief started drinking and then passed out. On Wednesday morning, the owners saw him and informed the police,” the officer said.