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Two persons of an interstate gang progressive successful thefts connected long-distance trains were arrested by the Government Railway Police and Railway Protection Force (RPF) astatine Secunderabad Railway Station connected Thursday (December 25, 2025), starring to the betterment of golden ornaments weighing astir 210 grams, valued astatine ₹25 lakh.
The arrested accused were identified arsenic 39-year-old Kokila Maniraju alias Raju Selvam, a nonmigratory of Bengaluru, and 27-year-old S. Dina, from Vellore territory successful Tamil Nadu. The constabulary said some were apprehended astatine astir 8 a.m. adjacent gross fig 2 of the Station portion loitering allegedly with the volition of committing thefts.
Investigations revealed that Kokila was a habitual offender who was antecedently been jailed successful 4 spot offence cases registered astatine assorted constabulary stations successful Hyderabad. Dina, who was struggling financially, is said to person approached Kokila astir a period ago, aft which they allegedly decided to perpetrate thefts together.
On the nighttime of December 2, the accused booked tickets successful the AC manager of the Nanded Express, posing arsenic passengers travelling from Visakhapatnam to Charlapalli. The Police said that portion different passengers were asleep, the duo tactically opened the zips of bags belonging to 2 women passengers and stole purses containing golden jewellery. After the thefts, they moved to different manager and aboriginal got down astatine Charlapalli Station and managed to escape.
Cases person been registered nether Section 305(c) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita successful transportation with the 2 thefts. Further probe is underway.
