Bengaluru: Two criminals were arrested by Bengaluru City Train Police recently for allegedly robbing passengers of their gold ornaments.
Not realizing that the robbers threatened them with a fake gun, the women parted with their chains.
Ravi Singh, 28, from Bihar and Sandeep, 26, from Uttar Pradesh Passengers targeted at the train that stopped at the outside signal between the train station and the Seshadripuram train bridge for the track path.
The police have recovered three chains worth RS 3 Lakh and toy pistols from the duo.
“They will direct ‘pistols’ in the head of women and demand valuables,” said an officer.
They carried out a robbery on August 22, 25 and 29.
The first incident occurred between 8:50 a.m.
and 8.55 on the Special Train of Tirupati-Bengaluru.
Poornima from the layout of Kumaraswamy returned to the city from Vellore along with his three children, when the duo fled with a chain worth Rs 88,000.
Duo robbing Minal Sudam Kshatriya from Doddabanasawadi from the chain worth 60,000 between 8:30 a.m.
and 8:45 a.m.
on August 25 on the Special Train Kochuveli-Mysuru.
A mother of a 11-month-old baby on a special train Kacheguda Bengaluru is their third victim in the same place.
Mamatha Devi from Talakunda, Tamil Nadu, was on his way to Mysuru from Kacheguda.
They fled with the gold chain worth Rs 1.5 lakh.
B’luru: Two uses a fake gun to rob a woman on the train, held
