Delhi train thief arrested at Kurla
Mumbai : A former navy man helped the Kurla railway police to arrest a thief who drugged him and looted his belongings while he was on his way to Kurla on the Pawan Express on September 8. Sunil Kumar Rai, 34, who had taken voluntary retirement from the navy, boarded the train on September 7 at Allahabad. "I met Nurul-ul-Haq Rashid Sheikh the next day. My berth number was 24 and his 22," Rai said.
"We gradually got chatting. Sheikh got off at Bhusaval around 8.30pm and returned with two cups of tea. After drinking the tea I felt drowsy." Rai said he might have dozed off soon after. "I woke up around 5am on September 8 and found that the train had reached Lokmanya Tilak Terminus. There was no one on the train and all my belongings were missing," he said. "And Sheikh was nowhere to be seen."
A hawker told Rai that the train had reached the station at 3.30 am. Rai was walking towards a stall when he saw Sheikh sitting inside the waiting room. He informed the railway police who arrested Sheikh. He was waiting to board the Gorakhpur Express from the station at 6.30am, police said. Sheikh told the police during interrogation that he had drugged and looted 30
passengers on the Delhi-Patna sector over the past three years.
The police have booked the 29-year-old resident of Saraswati Vihar, Delhi, under various sections of the IPC. "The railway court has remanded Sheikh in police custody till September 12," the police said.
Mumbai : A former navy man helped the Kurla railway police to arrest a thief who drugged him and looted his belongings while he was on his way to Kurla on the Pawan Express on September 8. Sunil Kumar Rai, 34, who had taken voluntary retirement from the navy, boarded the train on September 7 at Allahabad. "I met Nurul-ul-Haq Rashid Sheikh the next day. My berth number was 24 and his 22," Rai said.
"We gradually got chatting. Sheikh got off at Bhusaval around 8.30pm and returned with two cups of tea. After drinking the tea I felt drowsy." Rai said he might have dozed off soon after. "I woke up around 5am on September 8 and found that the train had reached Lokmanya Tilak Terminus. There was no one on the train and all my belongings were missing," he said. "And Sheikh was nowhere to be seen."
A hawker told Rai that the train had reached the station at 3.30 am. Rai was walking towards a stall when he saw Sheikh sitting inside the waiting room. He informed the railway police who arrested Sheikh. He was waiting to board the Gorakhpur Express from the station at 6.30am, police said. Sheikh told the police during interrogation that he had drugged and looted 30
passengers on the Delhi-Patna sector over the past three years.
The police have booked the 29-year-old resident of Saraswati Vihar, Delhi, under various sections of the IPC. "The railway court has remanded Sheikh in police custody till September 12," the police said.
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