Kingpin and his accomplice of inter-state gang involved in robberies and thefts and accused of throwing a 27-year-old woman out of speeding train on April 7 after she resisted of robbing her purse were nabbed from Jabalpur on Monday by Goverment Railway Police (GRP); main accused was having a reward of `10000 on his head.
Except the master mind Jeetu alias Jhadi and Vikram other gang members were arrested by GRP during the investigation on March 16 and valuables worth `5 lakh were recovered. Nine miscreants were nabbed in the investigation of robbey of purse from the victim in Samta Express from the victim Bhuvenshwari Devi.The two confessed their involvement in 18 robberies and thefts. The gang was operating in three states UP, Maharstara and Madhya Pradesh.Police have recovered gold and silver jewelry worth `3.5 lakh, `50000 cash and five mobile phones worth `80000 were recovered from their possession.The accused used chain pulling for targeting the passengers and after the decelerating of the train they would snatch valuables from the passengers and would escape the spot.Passengers which were asleep at the time of halting of train near railway stations were easy targets and the miscreants would remove the valuables from the windows.
The nabbed accused were identified as Kallu alias Omprakash Bhadoria (25) of Bhind, Sonu Panthi alias Jonty (28) of Ibrahimganj, Pushpendra alias Sagar of Sagar, Deepak alias Bhura Banwari (31) of Itarsi, Deepak alias Paniyal (32) of Ibrahimganj, Chandan Singh Raghuwanshi (32) of Hoshangabad, Ejaz alias Azad (24), Shabnam alias Pankaj Dubey (23) of Raisen and Sunil Kumar Mandal (23) of Satna.