The Bhubaneswar Government Railway Police (GRP) on Monday arrested two 19-year-old boys and booked them on the charges of looting train passengers.
Dishasan Jena (19) of Dhamnagar and Sk Muna (19) of Puruna Bazar of Bhadrak were arrested a girl student passenger Sangeeta Ekka Raiboga of Sundargarh district lodged a plaint with the Bhubaneswar GRP.
According to Bhubaneswar GRP station IIC Soubhagya Swain, Sangeeta Ekka Raiboga, a student of Biramitrapur College, was boarding general coach of Tapaswini Express to travel to Rourkelaon Sunday.
“Some unidentified miscreants committed theft of her hand purse containing her Intex cell phone, college identity card, `2,497 cash, PAN card, Aadhaar Card, an Aqua cell phone etc,” said Swain.
During a trap led by the GRP sleuths the two youths were nabbed. All the stolen properties were seized from their possession and handed over to the complainant.
Swain said both were habitual looters. They were forwarded to court.