The Government Railway Police (GRP) here arrested a youth on Thursday in a robbery case. The youth was identified as Md Hussain(25), a resident of Koel bank, Panposh, here. He along with his associates robbed a foreign woman of Rs1 lakh while she was travelling in a train to Jharsuguda. The police are now searching for other three accused in the case.
The police also seized a camera, a tablet PC, a mobile phone and a charger from Hussain.
Irene Howda (23), a Greek national and a first time visitor to India, was travelling from Howrah to Jharsuguda on November 22 night in the Azad Hind Express to attend the wedding ceremony of her friend Dr Jitesh Sharma and the train was near Rourkela during early morning when some miscreants entered into an AC compartment. While Irene was sleeping, they stole her shoulder bag. later, when Irene woke up, she came to know that she had been robbed of.
After reaching Jharsuguda, Irene lodged a complaint with the Jharsuguda GRP and complained that her passport, mobile phones, charger, tablet PC, a camera, a debit card, some Indian currencies and 500 Euro currency notes, besides other articles, were stolen from her.
Since the robbery had taken place between 3.15 am and 4.30 am on November 23, the Jharsuguda GRP told Irene to lodge the complaint in Rourkela. Accordingly, Irene travelled back to Rourkela accompanied by her friend’s father Dr Devashlok Mishra and lodged a complaint at a local police station. Rourkela railway police registered a case and started investigating the crime.