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The Government Railway Police (GRP) have cracked the chain-snatching lawsuit aboard the Sarkar Express and arrested a cardinal subordinate of the Bawaria pack from Rajasthan, officials said connected Sunday (June 21, 2026).
The accused, identified arsenic Sonu (35), lad of Biramdal and a nonmigratory of Talwara Jheel colony successful Hanumangarh territory of Rajasthan, was arrested astatine astir 1 p.m. connected Saturday (June 20, 2026) astatine Bapatla railway station.
According to the police, six members of the Bawaria pack travelling connected the Chengalpattu-Kakinada Port Sarkar Express allegedly pulled the alarm concatenation adjacent Nagaraju Canal adjacent to Appikatla railway presumption astatine astir 1 a.m. connected the nighttime of June 14-15, forcing the bid to halt.
The pack past allegedly snatched golden chains weighing a full of 75 grams from 2 women passengers travelling successful coaches S-3 and S-6 earlier attempting to flee.
When bid escort personnel, including ARPC Kondepi Sai, and passengers tried to halt them, the accused allegedly attacked them with stones, catapults and knives, attempting to termination the escort staff. The constabulary said the accused ignored repeated warnings, prompting escort unit to unfastened occurrence successful self-defence.
ARPCs V. Ravi Kumar and K. Bala Venkata Reddy, on with Railway Protection Force (RPF) unit M. Alexander and M. Venkata Naga Raju, reportedly fired 10 rounds from a Self-Loading Rifle (SLR), aft which the suspects escaped.
A lawsuit was registered astatine the Tenali GRP presumption nether Sections 66(1), 109(1) and 310(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The investigation, supervised by DIG B. Satya Yesu Babu, SP Rahul Dev Singh and Senior DSC, RPF, Vijayawada, Shanmuga Vadivel, was led by DSRP P. Akkeswara Rao, helped by peculiar teams.
The constabulary said Sonu confessed during interrogation that the Bawaria pack had been progressive successful astatine slightest 12 cases of alarm concatenation pulling and awesome tampering crossed the Guntur Railway Police Sub-Division implicit the past 2 years, including incidents reported astatine Nadikudi, New Piduguralla, Tummalacheruvu, Donakonda, Appikatla and Nidubrolu.
Five different accused from Rajasthan and Haryana stay absconding, and peculiar teams person been dispatched to Rajasthan to hint them. Further probe is nether way.
