nagpur a highprofile cat theft drama came to an end on saturday after mankapur police recovered a persian breed named dollar worth around rs30000 from 21yearold harshal manapure and his livein partner vilesha bansodbansods love for cat particularly the whitefurried dollar took a serious turn after she tried to own him in a wrong manner manapure who was a party in the theft also landed in a soup as cops have booked the couple and put them behind barsdollar who is the pet of dr arjumand ali and her family residing at gadge baba society went missing on the night of april 25 it had stepped out for relieving itself in an abandoned adjoining plot when it did not return the owners got worriedthe anxious family could barely sleep the whole night dollar generally returns within 10 minutes we searched the entire locality till the early hours of next day said dr arjumand a homeopaththe cat was gifted to dr arjumand by an acquaintance around oneandhalf years ago the animalloving family had two other cats apart from dollar the family also regularly feed dogs after neighbours told us that they had spotted manapure and vilesha taking the cat we questioned them but they denied any involvement we then called the police as soon as the cops arrived manapure fled on his bike which raised our doubt further dr arjumand saidarjumand and her family filed an fir at mankapur police station on friday the cops rounded up manapure with the help of his family members but vilesha was allowed to go after questioning the police asked vilesha to return on saturday after which she was placed under arrest they were still in denial and we too could not find dollar at their place said dr arjumand the doctor added that vilesha was at her house on saturday morning and soon neighbours alerted us about dollar being seen on the road we rushed out and after a twohour search found dollar said dr arjumanddollar was very scared he rushed towards us but seemed shaken up its fur was muddy too she said dollar was taken to mankapur police station where senior pi vazeer shaikh handed it over to dr arjumand after completing the formalities dollar accepted the milk we offered and enjoyed it seeing so many cops around did not unsettle it it loved being patted and pampered by everyone said shaikh