Karnataka: RPF team arrests train thieves after sensational chase

KARWAR: Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel in Karwar on Thursday arrested notorious criminals who were stealing jewellery and cash on Konkan Railway trains.

The RPF personnel waylaid a KSRTC bus, in which the accused were travelling, near the Karwar commercial port and arrested the trio who were wanted by police in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

The accused are Dilip Mishra, Mukaddar and Kullu Nishad, natives of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. During interrogation, Dilip and Mukaddar confessed to stealing on Konkan Railway trains. They were once jailed at Nainital. They were also accused of snatching a service revolver from a police station in Prayag (Uttar Pradesh).

According to the press release by RPF, their control room at Konkan Railway headquarters in Belapur (Mumbai) had transmitted an information regarding the theft of cash, cellphone and gold jewellery worth Rs 4 lakh in the Mangaluru-bound Matsyagandha Express at Murudeshwar station on Thursday.

The alert was sounded following a complaint by Chaitra Shetty. Immediately, the RPF personnel in Murudeshwar searched for the accused on the platform. But by then, they had left the place. Upon enquiry, local autorickshaw drivers informed the police that three persons had left to a bus stand in an autorickshaw. When the police asked the autorickshaw driver who ferried the trio to the bus stand, he said they had left for Panaji (Goa) in a KSRTC bus.

As the bus had already left the Murudeshwar bus stand, the RPF team contacted the bus conductor and asked him to keep an eye on them — but in a sly manner — and stop the vehicle where the RPF team from Karwar would intercept it. When the bus entered Karwar city, RPF team stopped it in front of the port on NH-66. Suspecting that the accused may have been armed with weapons, RPF commandos trained by Punjab police, who were part of the team, did not try to arrest the accused onboard the bus (fearing possible threat to passengers). Rs 35,000, 120gram jewellery worth Rs 4.25 lakh and cellphone worth Rs 12,000, the press release said, adding the RPF tam comprised Praveen Kumar, Binod Kumar and staff.

The accused, along with the stolen property recovered from them, were handed over to Murudeshwar police for further action on Friday, RPF officials said.


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