Bhopal GRP have nabbed two members of an inter-state gang of thieves and recovered valuables worth Rs 12 lakh from their possession; nabbed miscreants confessed to have committed 11 crimes of stealing valuables by sedating passengers with eatables laced with sedatives.
According to the police acting on a tip off two miscreants were nabbed from Bhopal railway station and Delhi. The nabbed miscreants were identified as Mohammad Azad Alam (28) of Bihar and Mahesh Verma (39) of Delhi.
SHO Bhopal GRP Hemant Shrivastava said that the two were successfully nabbed after their accomplice Ehsan Alam was nabbed around four months ago who confessed that the two are members of their gang and are active in stealing and thefts in the city and Delhi.
Based on the information the two were searched and nabbed and in the initial investigation valuables including the goods of the passengers worth Rs 4.5 lakh have been recovered from their possession while gold of Rs 8 lakh has been found with the miscreants against which they have availed loan from a finance company, he added.
Shrivastava said that Azad has been booked in Bihar for thefts and other crimes while crime record of Mahesh would be searched. During the investigation police found that there are 20-22 members of the gang operating in different states and would travel in sleeper and AC class and would befriend with the passengers and would offered food and drinks laced with sedatives and would later escape with valuables and later when the passenger would gain conscious valuables would be found missing.