Two persons, who used to steal passengers’ luggage and other valuables
in the moving trains, were arrested in a joint operation of Railway
Protection Force (RPF),Gaya under ECR and GRP from the Gaya railway
station here on Thursday night.
RPF Inspector Ajay Prakash said that arrested thieves are habitual
offenders. Two accused Md Faizi (22) son of Mohammad Mumtaz Alam a
resident of Dargah Ghera Sultanganj, under Sampatchak police station
Sultanganj district Patna and other Mumtaz Shah age 45 years son of
Uddin Shah alias Gonga belonging to Cherki under Dulra police station
in Gaya district were nabbed after alert cops noticed some suspicious
movements during CCTV surveillance.
According to RPF sources around 23:30, On arrival of train number
12942 Parasnath Express at Gaya railway station platform number 01 at
23:55 hrs by the members of Railway Police Station Gaya, in order to
pass the said train safely, two persons got down from the ordinary
coach of the said train in suspicious condition.
They were seen leaving, they were chased on the basis of suspicion and
in the course of surveillance, both of them quickly ran towards the
motorcycle stand seeing the police force coming and one of them had a
motorcycle belonging to the Platina company whose registration number
was JH10S-3546.
They have started and tried to escape by making another person, a
person who was sitting behind the motorcycle was caught on the spot
and the driver of the motorcycle managed to escape by leaving the
motorcycle taking advantage of the darkness.
His name was Mohammad Faizi age 22 years father Mohammad Mumtaz Alam
Sakin Dargah Ghera Sultanganj, Sampatchak police station Sultanganj
district Patna and on asking the name of the escaped person, he named
his name as Mumtaz Shah age 45 years son of Uddin Shah alias Gonga of
Dulra police station Cherki, district Gaya.
RPF Inspector further said that the above two persons together on
Thursday at 05:30 pm, a passenger near Koderma railway station in
order to go from Dhanbad Intercity Express to Parasnath station by
parking a motorcycle at Gaya railway station.
After stealing the mobile of "Real me" company, got down from that
bogie and went to Parasnath station by the same train,
Later in order to come to Gaya from Parasnath station by train number
12942 Parasnath Express,they stole the Android mobile phone of Oppo
and Vivo company and kept two mobiles with Mumtaz on the way and gave
two mobiles, on reaching Gaya railway station.
Seeing the police, both of us panicked and tried to escape. On
acceptance, he was searched in which Vivo Y95 Android mobile with IMEI
number 8628640 41253630, other realme company's Android mobile IMEI
number 86853043373490, 86853043373482 and motorcycle Bajaj Platina
registration number JH10S3546 recovered from his possession.
Confiscated while making a seizure list and forwarded to Government
Railway Police Station Gaya for further action,later raided the
permanent residence of accused Mumtaz Shah, who fled from the spot,
was arrested with 02 other Android mobile phones from Mumtaz Shah's
possession.
On investigation of the criminal history of the said arrested accused
Mumtaz Sah,while three cases 08/2009, 17/2016 and 375/ 18 against him
was found in the Railway Police Station Gaya under section 379, 411
and 34 of IPC.
The estimated value of all the stolen goods recovered was found to be ₹150000.