Nagpur: Government Railway Government (GRP), Itwari, helped a poor woman get her mangalsutrites back on September 28, 999 days after it was stolen on the train on January 4, 2019.
GRP Itwari in-Charge, Assistant Police Inspector (PI) Mubarak Shaikh restored Mangalsutra After seeing it on the neck of a woman from the nomadic tribe, which was part of a group of robbers rounded from the shuttle train from Itwari to the Gondia.
After studying the Mangalsutra description, Shaikh identified the owner of Sushma Kawarale from notes and helped him get it back.
“The thief belongs to the nomadic tribe whose members are not wearing gold mangalsutra, and also do not throw it away.
This knowledge took me to the chain on his neck,” Shaikh said.
“The thief claimed that Mangalsutra was him.
So, I took the kawale before him and told him about the victim’s service and poverty, after the nomadic woman who broke down and claimed to have steal it,” Shaikh said.
Kaware is used to pray for Mangalsutra – which is given by his mother – and has many emotions attached to it.
He prefers to pray to God to be returned, instead of considering replacing it.
“We lost all expectations even though we prayed when the help of GRP came as a surprise,” he said.
Tear-eyed kawale, 45, which produces RS150 per day as a laborer at the betel nut factory, does not believe his luck when receiving Mangalsutra stolen from the Supervisor of Police GRP M Rajkumar at the police headquarters.
Shaikh had previously confirmed that the national kabaddi player from Haryana got his cellphone back after two and a half years.
He had lost a telephone at Itwari Station in March 2019.
Shaikh recovered the phone from the Gondia affected by Naxal and sent it back to the player through the courier.
Kawale and Kabaddi players from Haryana are among the 52 people he knew Shaikh had returned their valuables this year.
Valuables are stolen or lost on the train in recent years.
About 41 people received their stolen cellphone while 11 others, such as Kawarale, received their stolen gold or other valuables from Shaikh after he took over the Itwari police station.
“Overall, we have returned valuable items worth around RS6 Lakh in the past six months,” Shaikh said.