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The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the Hyderabad part (South Central Railway), during a peculiar drone surveillance operation, apprehended a history-sheeter progressive successful theft of rider belongings astatine Yakutpura railway station.
The cognition was carried retired by the all-women ‘Pink Patrol’ led by trained UAV pilots, officials said connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026)
The fishy was identified aft helium was seen moving suspiciously wrong the presumption premises, staying unusually adjacent to passengers successful a mode indicating imaginable transgression intent. The surveillance combined aerial drone monitoring with ground-based decoy checks during susceptible hours on MMTS sections.
Upon search, RPF unit recovered a suspected stolen mobile telephone valued astatine astir ₹28,000, recovered without a SIM card. A packet containing marijuana and a portion of sleeping pills were besides seized from his possession.
Further verification revealed that the idiosyncratic is simply a known history-sheeter with aggregate cases registered against him astatine a section constabulary station, including effort to murder, house-breaking and theft.
The accused, on with the recovered items, was taken to the RPF Post astatine Kacheguda and aboriginal handed implicit to the Government Railway Police (GRP), Kacheguda, for further probe and ineligible action.
Since the motorboat of the ‘Pink Patrol’ past month, RPF has registered 388 cases related to unauthorised introduction into ladies’ coaches, on with 69 cases against trespassers and suspicious individuals connected railway premises.
Two theft cases person been detected, with stolen spot worthy astir ₹92,480 recovered. The drone squad has besides solved 1 stone-pelting case, starring to the offender’s arrest.
“We are expanding Pink Patrol operations with accrued drone deployment, intelligence-driven monitoring, and women-led surveillance crossed susceptible MMTS sections. Women passengers should interaction Helpline 139 successful lawsuit of emergencies,” Senior Divisional Security Commissioner Debashmita C. Banerjee said successful a property release.
