The Bhubaneswar Government Railway Police (GRP) have arrested a man who allegedly used to steal cash and other valuables and even clothes of passengers when they visited toilet at the railway station keeping their belongings outside.
Sankar Swamy (19), a resident of Tamil Nadu who is now residing at laxmisagar here, even used to commit theft of passengers’ clothes leaving nothing for the victims to wear.
According to GRP IIC Soubhagya Kumar Swain, whoever goes to bathroom and toilet of second class/AC waiting room at the Bhubaneswar railway station by keeping their bags/luggage and even their clothes outside, one particular type of thieves used to commit theft of their cash, mobile from their pant and shirt pockets.
The victim when gets out from bathroom does not get his clothes to wear even, said Swain.
He said on Friday at 7 pm, one D Dharma Raju (39) of Srikakulam of Andhra Pradesh had gone to the second class waiting room toilet by wearing his gamuchha and keeping his pant and shirt outside. When he came out from the toilet he saw that a man threw his clothes outside the window and started running. When the victim shouted the on-duty police staffs caught hold of Sankar Swamy,” said Swain.
A Samsung mobile phone, a voter ID card and cash of `20,000 were recovered which was in the pant and shirt pockets of the culprit, added Swain.
On several occasions too, he had been forwarded to court.