Nagpur: The Senior Divisional Security Commissioner of Railway Protection Force (RPF), Central Railway, Jyoti Satija has formed a ‘special crime detection team’ on September 7 with the sole objective to make the
Nagpur railway station a safe and secured zone for passengers. On Thursday, the special squad recovered five stolen mobile phone handsets, purse and other belongings from an alleged thief and also seized 100 liquor bottles.
The RPF’s special team, during it’s anti-crime surveillance patrolling, had rounded up 25-year-old Motihur Sheikh from platform number 1 following his doubtful movements. During interrogation, Sheikh claimed to have admitted having stolen five mobile phone handsets, one purse and some belongings from different passengers while they were asleep at general waiting room or outside the booking office.
Later, CCTV footage of the cameras installed at general waiting hall and also outside booking counters confirmed Sheikh’s involvement behind the thefts. He was later handed over to the Government Railway Police (GRP). It is learnt that Sheikh, a native of West Bengal, had come to city to work as labourer at a Mahametro construction site. He had later decided to steal belongings of the passengers at Nagpur railway station after teaming up with some auto-rickshaw drivers.
Sr DSC Satija said the special team has been formed with 16 members under an officer to make the Nagpur railway station a crime-free zone. “There were frequent incidences of crimes being reported at the Nagpur railway station. We are now trying to set the goal on daily basis for the special squad to prevent any type of crime and bring it down to zero,” he said.
Apart from having rounded up Sheikh, the special squad comprising constables Vikas Sharma and Vivek Kanojia seized 100 bottles of country-made liquor, worth around Rs2,600, from platform number 2 after they were found in an abandoned sack. RPF’s latest action on illegal transportation of liquor took the numbers of such cases to almost one dozen in seven days.
The RPF, in yet another action earlier in the day, nabbed one person, identified as Rajivsingh Udaysingh, with possession of around 16,000 peacock feathers from platform number 3. He was later handed over to the forest department.
