A WhatsApp message from Mumbai Railway DIG to Bihar Railway SP helped the Government Railway Police (GRP) nab two burglars who had escaped from Maharashtra with cash and ornaments looted from their employer’s residence.
The two accused — Shambhu Yadav and Mukesh Yadav — were arrested by the GRP at Patna junction soon after they alighted from Lokmaniya Tilak Kurla-Rajendra Nagar Superfast Express. The police also recovered diamond ornaments worth Rs 15 lakh and Rs 2.5 lakh in cash from the duo, who travelled from Mumbai to Patna in the general compartment of the train.
The Yadavs, who hailed from Rosera in Bihar’s Samastipur district, were employed at Ashok Singhi’s house in Mumbai. While Mukesh worked as a domestic help in Singhi’s residence at Goregaon, Shambhu worked at the trader’s plastic sheet factory.
Taking advantage of Singhi’s daughter’s wedding, where all the family members were busy with rituals, the Yadav brothers stole cash and ornaments and escaped to Bihar on Lokmaniya Tilak Express.
“The Yadav brothers have confessed their involvement in the robbery incident,” said Railway SP P N Mishra, who was earlier sent the pictures of the duo by Mumbai DIG on WhatsApp.
Mishra, in turn, asked the Buxar police to board the train when it was crossing through that junction. The police kept a watch on the duo and arrested them after the train reached Patna junction.
A couple of years back, ornaments and other jewellery items worth Rs 1 crore were stolen from the house of a relative of actor Amjad Khan in Mumbai. The ornaments were later recovered from Bihar.
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