A lady passenger was relived of ornaments and other belongings worth Rs 3 lakh by some unidentified looters in Howra-Ahmedabad Express at Raigarh, police said on Sunday.
According to police Beena Aasra (41) wife of Nilesh Kumar, native of Kolkata has registered a complaint with GRP at Khariar railway station of Raigarh district on Sunday morning. In the complaint the victim woman maintained that she had started from Kolkata and was destined to reach Kharsia. She was accompanied by her 5-year old son and Sonal Aasra (complainant’s sister). “The purpose of Beena’s journey was to fix the marriage of Sonal,” said GRP sources.
Police further said, at Kharagpur station at 2.15 am on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, the victim stepped down from the train for a few seconds and boarded again. While the train was about to leave the station some unidentified youth followed her up to her reserved berths. When the train was about to pick up speed, looter snatched the bag containing Rs 30,000 in cash, two costly Nokia mobile handsets and gold and silver jewellery worth about Rs 2 lakh from the victim and swiftly ran away, police said.
Going by the complaint police said that victim has levelled allegation that the she had approached the police at Rourkela and Tata stations, but none of them paid heed to her grievances.