Sirsa (Haryana): A half-tailed stray cow swallowed 40 gram gold jewellery that a family had accidentally disposed off with their kitchen waste. The incident took happened in Haryana’s Kalanwali town in Sirsa district. According to a report in The Times of India, the family has brought the bovine home and is now waiting for it to pass excreta to recover the ornaments.

Janakraj was quoted in the report saying that his wife and daughter-in-law had removed their gold jewellery that included earrings, rings and chains and kept them in a bowl in the kitchen. As the ornaments were hidden under a pile of kitchen waste, the mother threw them outside their house to feed the cattle. After a while, when she spotted a gold earring outside the house, she took it and showed it to her family who then realised that they had left the ornaments in the kitchen. When they rushed to the kitchen, they could not find the jewellery.