Thieves return 12 statues they stole, leaving a message explaining a strange reason

Indian police said on Thursday that thieves stole 12 statues from a temple in northern India, and returned most of them, after suffering from nightmares that haunted them after the theft incident.

Rajiv Kumar Singh, a local police official, said the statues were stolen on the night of May 9 from the 300-year-old Balaji temple in Chitrakot district in Uttar Pradesh.

The temple's chief priest Mahant Rampalak Das said in the complaint he filed the morning after the theft that the statues were valued at thousands of rupees.

A week later, Rampalak Das found a bag containing 14 of the 16 statues that had been stolen near his home, along with a note saying that the thieves had been suffering from nightmares since they stole the statues.

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