Unidentified miscreants looted four women passengers aboard Overnight Express in the wee hours on Monday after the train left Narsinghpur railway station. The train was coming to Bhopal from Jabalpur.
The passengers robbed of belongings of passengers travelling in the AC coach. One of them is a sessions judge posted at Rewa. According to station house officer (SHO), government railway police (GRP), Jabalpur Y Mishra, the CCTV phootages revealed that three persons boarded the AC coach at around 4 am as the train was leaving Narsinghpur railway station and carried out the loot in AC-2 coach. They were armed with knives. They took away seven mobiles, jewelry worth Rs 3.5 lakh and cash of Rs 40,000 before pulling the chain and jumping out of the train.
Mishra said that one of the loot victims is Arti Shukla Pandey, an additional district & sessions judge at Rewa while the other three have been identified as Anita Sharma, Renu Sainy and Poonam Bhaleja.
Other passengers who were targeted in the robbery were- Anita Sharma, wife of lokesh Upmanyu of Mandla, Poonam Baweja of Kolgawan and Tushmul Jha (son of Rajya Sabha MP Prabhat Jha).
Both GRP and Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel have started further investigation and searching for the miscreants.