Four women, all residents of Agra and Delhi were arrested after a joint team of the Gwalior and Dabra Government Railway Police busted an interstate gang of women criminals after many complainants of theft had been lodged at the Gwalior and Dabra railway stations.
The robbery that led to the arrest of the women criminals was committed on Sunday in the Udaipur- Khujurao Intercity Express during its halt at the Gwalior Railway Station in which a bag belonging to the wife of one Aravind Maurya, resident of Dabra was stolen by the gang. On getting information the Gwalior GRP alerted the Dabra GRP and the women were arrested from the Dabra railway platform.
The four women criminals have been identified as Nandini, resident of Delhi; Anita Marathi, resident of Faridpur; Lalita Gaund and Priti, both residents of Agra. The GRP have recovered silver and gold ornaments, mobiles and dress materials from the arrested women. The accused were brought to Gwalior and presented before the Railway Magistrate who has sent them to judicial custody.
According to sources in the GRP, the gang operated on the Delhi- Jhansi route and would enter crowded compartments before embarking with valuables and bags, especially those belonging to women passengers. The gang has so far confessed to eleven robberies that had been committed during the past six months. According to sources in the GRP the total value of the stolen items is over Rs 2.5 crores. During interrogation the GRP also came to know that the accused were planning another robbery on Monday in the Delhi bound Tamil Nadu Express which reaches Gwalior around 1 midnight.
The GRP have also got some leads about robberies committed in Delhi and Agra and the records of those robberies are being collected by them.