Thief Returns Valuables After Realising House Belonged To Renowned Poet

The thief was filled with remorse and returned all the items he had picked up. He pasted a small note on a wall, asking for the owner's forgiveness for stealing from such a great literary figure's house.

A thief was overcome with remorse after realising that the house he stole valuables from belonged to a famous Marathi writer and returned the valuables he had stolen, police said today.

The house from where the thief stole the valuables, including an LED TV, belonged to Narayan Surve and is located at Neral in Raigad district, police said.

Surve, who died on August 16, 2010 at 84 years, was a celebrated Marathi poet and social activist. Born in Mumbai, his poems vividly depicted the struggles of the urban working class.