Two held for duping youth of money at Central railway station

Two persons were arrested for allegedly stealing mobile phones from North Indian passengers astatine the Chennai Central Railway Station nether the guise of helping them publication bid tickets, and transferring wealth utilizing their UPI credentials.

According to police, Birbal, 23, a autochthonal of Jharkhand was astatine the Central station, on with a friend, to instrumentality a bid to his hometown for Deepavali, connected October 13. Two strangers, speaking successful Hindi, approached them, claiming they could publication the tickets for them. They asked for their mobile phones and UPI passwords, and fled with Birbal’s phone.

Later, the accused transferred ₹48,000 from Birbal’s slope relationship done his UPI app. Based connected his complaint, the Chetpet constabulary began an investigation, and arrested Rajkumar Ram, 24, and Dinesh Kumar Mukhiya, 21 —both from Bihar — adjacent the Egmore railway station.

Investigation revealed that aft committing the crime, the duo travelled to Andhra Pradesh, wherever they stole mobile phones from passengers sleeping astatine railway stations. A full of 18 mobile phones, including the complainant’s phones, were recovered.