The Government Railway Police (GRP), Bhopal, have busted an inter-State gang of fraudsters and nabbed 2 miscreants involved in 27 crimes of stealing valuables from train passengers.
Police said accused would fraud with passengers and escape with money. The accused would cheat gullible victims using different reasons and would collect money from them.
The two accused were narrowed and arrested who were identified as Sanjay Shukla(23) and Shubham Shukla(21).
During interrogation, the accused told a total of 27 crimes in Secunderabad, Bangalore, Yesvantpur, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Surat, Jaipur, Balsad, Vadodara, Vapi were committed.
Notably, gang was arrested after a complaint was lodged by Bhagwan Das on November 4, from Mungeli Chhattisgarh, to Bhopal and was scheduled to go Bilaspur. He met two unidentified persons at the railway station Bhopal who started talking to him.
One of them said that he would be fined for having Rs 50000 and asked regarding money which was Rs 23500 and one of them collected money in the name if receipt or else he would be be imposed in the train and later they escaped with money.
Police registered case against unidentified miscreants and later the two were nabbed. The aides who have helped accused in the crime would be searched and arrested. Number of victims and money fraudulently collected would be investigated.