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The Railway Protection Force (RPF), successful coordination with the Tamil Nadu Government Railway Police (GRP), has arrested 8 members of an inter-State organised robbery pack progressive successful the theft of golden ornaments weighing 1,473.97 grams, valued astatine astir ₹2.5 crore, from bid no. 16128 Guruvayur-Chennai Egmore Express.
The incidental occurred during the aboriginal hours of May 16. The accused targeted a container containing golden ornaments being transported from Thrissur to assorted jewellery establishments successful the Tirunelveli region. After committing the theft, they deboarded the bid astatine Kuzhithurai railway presumption and regrouped successful Thrissur arsenic per their pre-planned strategy, wherever the stolen golden was subsequently distributed among the pack members.
The arrested accused, each natives of Thrissur district, Kerala, person been identified arsenic Kannambathur Ranjith, Abu Tahir, Gopakumar, Sharafuddin, Siddique, Sujith, Dolly, and Vipin. One accused, Raphael, who allegedly supplied elaborate information, photographs and question particulars of the golden bearer to the gang, remains absconding.
A month-long probe was undertaken jointly by the Crime Intelligence Branch (CIB) of RPF and the Tamil Nadu GRP. The probe progressive postulation and meticulous investigation of much than 200 CCTV footages from railway stations, nationalist places, roads, and commercialized establishments successful Thrissur and Kuzhithurai, according to the RPF sources.
The accused had subsequently gone into hiding astatine assorted locations including Bengaluru, Attappadi, Tirupati, and Visakhapatnam. Through coordinated operations, surveillance and intelligence-based follow-up, each 8 accused were apprehended.
100% recovery
Investigation further revealed that the pack leader, Kannambathur Ranjith, had melted a important information of the stolen ornaments into golden bars soon aft the theft with the volition of disposing of the property. During the operation, the investigating squad recovered and seized 1,087 grams of stolen gold, currency amounting to ₹49.33 lakh generated done the merchantability of the remaining stolen gold, and 2 four-wheelers utilized successful the committee of the offence. Thus, the squad achieved betterment of the full stolen spot value, resulting successful 100% betterment successful the case, the RPF property merchandise noted.
The arrested accused person transgression antecedents involving robbery, murder, pack rape, narcotics trafficking, and preventive detention cases. Gopakumar is besides an accused successful the wide reported Thrissur honey-trap case.
The full cognition was conducted nether the nonstop supervision of Muhammed Haneef, elder divisional information commissioner, RPF, Thiruvananthapuram.
“This was a highly challenging probe involving an organised transgression web that had meticulously planned the offence and taken respective measures to conceal their individuality and destruct evidence. The lawsuit was cracked done relentless efforts by the investigating team,” helium said.
