The railway police have busted an inter-state gang of miscreants that was engaged in looting train passengers by drugging them and arrested two suspects.
Since a number of similar crimes were reported, the SP, Railway Bhopal, Avdesh Goswami, formed a team comprising police station in-charge GRP Khandwa Jitendra Shinde, police station GRP Itarasi in charge Janaradhan Singh, DS Dhurve KM Richaria, Darshan Singh, Bhaibhav, Gokul Prasad, Virendra Nath, Rakesh Sharma, Brijesh Sharma, Amit Saxena, Mukesh Shukla and Vinod Bharti.
Two suspects — Nasir Ali and Dulara alias Rashid — were taken into custody and put to interrogation. They confessed to the crime and during interrogation named their third associate as Asif, a resident of Kosikalan Mathura.
The police recovered a mobile, a ring, a mangalsootra and a gold chain and Rs 1,000 from Nasir s/o Mohammad Nasir Ali and one gold ring, a mangalsootra, a pair of silver payal and Rs 1,000 from by Dulara, s/o Mohammad Vakil.
The police claimed that around six such cases have been solved. On March 29 last year complainant Pramod Kumar Saraswat of Jhansi Road, Gwalior, was travelling from Gwalior to Mumbai by lashkar Express. During the journey an unknown co-passenger handed him milk laced with intoxicating substance and after consuming it, he became unconscious and the offender fled with his mobile and Rs 4,000 cash.
An FIR in this connection was registered with the Khandwa GRP police station.
In another case, one Vinod Kumar Yadav was travelling by lashkar Express in Coach No. S-1 and berth number 15 from Agra to Kurla on March 31 last year. His co-passengers befriended him and fed him tea laced with some intoxicating substance. On his becoming unconscious the cheats stole a gold chain, a gold ring and Rs 1,000. later he lodged a complaint at Itarsi police station which registered the case crime no. 179/13 under Section no. 328 and 379 of IPC.