The Government Railway Police (GRP) here busted one racket involved in theft of laptops and mobile phones at the Jharsuguda bus-stand from passengers in the Boudh-Bhubaneswar night coach buses.
The Jharsugada bus stand comes under the GRP. The arrestee was identified as Kablu Bag (19) of Boudh district, while his accomplice Satya Meher (27) managed to escape.
The police sources said that the accused were targetting night coach buses at Jharsuguda for their operation. When the buses coming from Boudh to Bhubaneswar reach the Jharsuguda bus stand and passengers alight from the bus for their dinner, the accused enter the buses posing them as passengers and steal laptops and phones from passengers’ luggage.
On July 5, an FIR was made by some passengers with the Jharsuguda GRP about theft of their laptops from night coach buses. Similar allegation was also made with the GRP on August 16 about loss of laptops from bus stand on August 15.
GRP IIC Devjani Naik said during an inquiry, the police could arrest the accused Kablu Bag moving in station area in a suspicious manner. Two laptops concealed by the accused in bus stand area were recovered. likewise, the police also recovered five laptops during raids conducted in Boudh district on Sunday, Naik maintained.