New Delhi

This comes across as from the Panchatantra, a collection of ancient Indian stories with animals as characters, for children, but with a twist. The story is real, and the clever crow is not thirsty but a gold picker.

The amazing real-life story is from Malappuram, a Muslim-dominated city in Kerala, where a piece of gold jewelry picked by a crow and found three years later, It was returned to its owner by a Muslim family.

Rukmini, a resident of Trikalingod in Malappuram district of Kerala, had taken off a 12-gram gold bracelet (Valued at Rs. 1.12 lakh) while working in her yard and kept it nearby.

After finishing, when she went to pick it up again, it was missing.

She immediately started searching, thinking that the bracelet might have been stolen.

Despite repeated searches, the bracelet was not found. The loss of the precious jewelry disappointed the family. However, left with no option, they reconciled to her loss.

However, in a typical fairy tale ending, three years later, Rukmini saw an advertisement in the local vernacular published by the Trikalangod Public Library where the authorities were asking for the rightful owner of a gold bracelet in their possession to contact them.

Three months ago, Anwar Sadat, a local tree climber, had handed over the gold ornament found by his daughter Fatima under a mango tree to the library authorities so that it could be returned to the rightful owner.

The bracelet was originally found in a crow’s nest on a mango tree near Rukmini’s house, which had fallen due to strong winds.

Fatima Huda, who had gone with him to pick mangoes, saw the bracelet shining among the branches of the fallen nest.

When she tried to find out if it was gold, the bracelet broke. Later, the father and daughter handed over the broken pieces of the bracelet to the library so that it could be returned to its original owner.

The library handed over the bracelet to Rukmini and her husband.

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After this incident, while people are discussing the crow's behaviour, they are praising the Sadat family for their high values.