CHENNAI: A Government Railway Police team on Friday arrested a man who a month ago had drugged a railway engineer on the Howrah-Chennai Mail and escaped with a gold chain. Police, who identified the arrested as 49-year-old A Subhankar Chakraborty from Hooghly in West Bengal, said he was a suspect in 10 similar cases in other states. Nine bottles containing chemicals and 60 sedative tablets were seized and a court sent him to jail.
On July 18, railway engineer Amit Kumar was found unconscious in a sleeper coach of the Howrah Mail at Chennai Central. A few co-passengers alerted GRP personnel who admitted him to Rajiv Gandhi Government General hospital. He later told police he had blacked out after consuming the food he had packed from home.
He said a man in a yellow t shirt had been seated beside him and had been talking to him for long hours. At most stations, when most of the others got down on to the platform the man remained inside. At one station, Amit Kumar got down to purchase snacks, leaving his food parcel on his berth. The man was on the opposite berth. Later, after the train left the station, Amit had his dinner and soon dozed off. When he recovered, he found himself in hospital and his five sovereign gold chain missing.
Based on Amit Kumar’s complaint, the GRP team registered a case and the needle of suspicion fell on the man in yellow. The team members checked CCTV camera footage at the station and found the man moving around aimlessly. Subhankar Chakraborty was picked up and during interrogation revealed the truth.
Chakraborty, police said, would look for people travelling by themselves, strike a conversation before sedating them and fleeing with the valuables. He been involved in similar thefts at Howrah, Mumbai, Lucknow, Nagpur, Kanpur and Vijayawada and his favourite sedative was Ativan 2mg, a police officer said. “He usually brought biscuits and other snacks with him and, after studying the passengers, offered them the items. In case of people who refused to to accept the snacks, he would drug the food they had brought, usually when they went to the toilet or got down on to a station platform,” the officer added.
After each successful strike, he would disposed of the loot in Mumbai, Lucknow and Howrah and lead a luxurious life, the officer said, requesting train passengers not to accept any food offered by strangers.
In Video:CCTV footage helps nab thief who robbed train passengers after drugging them
On July 18, railway engineer Amit Kumar was found unconscious in a sleeper coach of the Howrah Mail at Chennai Central. A few co-passengers alerted GRP personnel who admitted him to Rajiv Gandhi Government General hospital. He later told police he had blacked out after consuming the food he had packed from home.
He said a man in a yellow t shirt had been seated beside him and had been talking to him for long hours. At most stations, when most of the others got down on to the platform the man remained inside. At one station, Amit Kumar got down to purchase snacks, leaving his food parcel on his berth. The man was on the opposite berth. Later, after the train left the station, Amit had his dinner and soon dozed off. When he recovered, he found himself in hospital and his five sovereign gold chain missing.
Based on Amit Kumar’s complaint, the GRP team registered a case and the needle of suspicion fell on the man in yellow. The team members checked CCTV camera footage at the station and found the man moving around aimlessly. Subhankar Chakraborty was picked up and during interrogation revealed the truth.
Chakraborty, police said, would look for people travelling by themselves, strike a conversation before sedating them and fleeing with the valuables. He been involved in similar thefts at Howrah, Mumbai, Lucknow, Nagpur, Kanpur and Vijayawada and his favourite sedative was Ativan 2mg, a police officer said. “He usually brought biscuits and other snacks with him and, after studying the passengers, offered them the items. In case of people who refused to to accept the snacks, he would drug the food they had brought, usually when they went to the toilet or got down on to a station platform,” the officer added.
After each successful strike, he would disposed of the loot in Mumbai, Lucknow and Howrah and lead a luxurious life, the officer said, requesting train passengers not to accept any food offered by strangers.
In Video:CCTV footage helps nab thief who robbed train passengers after drugging them
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