The Bhubaneswar Government Railway Police (GRP) on Monday arrested and court-forwarded a 24-year-old woman on the charge of looting passengers and rescued her six-year-old daughter from the station here.
The security forces seized seven mobile phones, 18 SIM cards, 30 train tickets and `4,620 in cash from her possession. Her six-year-old daughter was handed over to the Khordha child line after her arrest.
According to Bhubaneswar GRP station IIC Soubhagya Swain, the woman, identified as Sasmita Mohanty of Jharsuguda district, usually looted people at the station waiting room and inside the trains here.
Sasmita, a divorcee was staying at Begunia in Khordha district, the police said.
“The arrested woman used to tell people about her poverty and helplessness by showing her daughter and then used to loot them,” the IIC added.