A two-member team of the Pune Government Railway Police (GRP) returned stolen gold weighing about 1 gram and 600 milligrams to former Assembly Deputy Speaker Rama Chandra Panda at his residence here on Monday after 19 long years of a snatching incident.
According to reports, while Panda was travelling with his wife Susama by the Konark Epress a professional snatcher and miscreant entered train in between Solapur to Pune and snatched the Mangalsutra from Panda’s wife’s neck on December 20, 2005 and managed to escape Later, Panda had filed a complaint with the GRP at the Kurdualadi Railway Station in Maharashtra following which the cops began a probe.
The two police officers of the Pune GRP handed over, not the Mangal- Sutra to Pand in presence of former Chhatrapur MLA Priyanshu Pradhan and scribe Hrushikesh Mohanty and others. Panda thanked the Pune GRP for the efforts to locate the lost gold ornament by which public can repose trust on them.