After tweet to Rly Minister, GRP nabs thief from Bihar
   Date :10-Apr-2019

Staff Reporter:
Government Railway Police (GRP) of Ujjain has arrested an inter-state thief from Bihar who has stolen bag of a woman passenger carrying cash, jewellery, including gold and diamond, ornaments and mobile on a moving train on March 15. The stolen goods amounted to Rs 12 lakh, said ADG (Rail) Aruna Mohan Rao while addressing to mediapersons here on Tuesday.The victim Tanuja Ropre was travelling in the AC coach of the Valsad-Puri Superfast Express train with her husband Dr Deepak Ropre, a retired doctor in the Indian Army. He has recently retired from Indian Army and has decided to make practice from home therefore the couple was travelling from Vadodara of Gujarat to Bhubaneswar of Odisha when the theft occurred near Ujjain. Firstly, they were planning their journey through flight but as the luggage was more with them therefore they decided to travel in train.
 
On night of March 14, the husband and wife were travelling in the train in separate boogies for their reservations were
provided like that only and perhaps seeing the woman alone asleep, the accused had stolen her purse that had mobile phone, golden ornaments as well as cash, all to the tune of Rs 12 lakh. The couple, according to ADG Rao, the woman after awakening in the journey realised that her purse was missing as the train Valsad Puri Express was about to reach Ujjain Railway Station. Later, she informed her husband who made tweet to rail minister Piyush Goyal.
 
 
They then deboarded the train and lodged a complaint with GRP, Ujjain, where a case under Section 380 of IPC was registered. ADG Rao further said that based on the complaint, a team analysed the CCTV footage and also went through the reservation charts as there are few offenders who travel on reserved seats but to no avail. However, the woman’s purse had a phone that was also missing and that mobile number was put on surveillance and it was then traced to Bihar. Based on further inputs, a team reached there and arrested Raju Mistri (54) from Agamkuan area in Patna district of Bihar. The accused after realising that he will be trapped had buried the few of the ornaments near Friganj bridge, where he had put a stone to identify the place. When quizzed, accused told police that on incident night, he was returning to Patna in Valsad-Puri train after paying obeisance at Mahakal temple in Ujjain. He was facing financial problems therefore finding the woman passenger alone in train, he has stolen his purse and after taking jewellery, cash and mobile phone he threw her purse from the train. The team had by now recovered the ornaments and has started grilling the accused as he is likely to be involved in other such theft incidents in trains.