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This is an archive article published on February 12, 2023
To find ‘stolen’ shoes of official’s daughter, 3 Rly agencies launch probe, trace ‘suspect’
According to the GRP(Bareilly), Divisional Railway Manager (East Coast Railway Zone) Vineet Singh had filed a theft complaint on her daughter's behalf in Sambhalpur, Odisha, on January 5, alleging that her shoes worth Rs 10,000 was stolen from the AC first-class coach of Lucknow Mail on January 4.
"Though she accepted her mistake, we are yet to recover the shoes," the police said.
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AN Over month-long probe involving Government Railway Police (GRP), Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) led to the tracing of a woman who had allegedly mistakenly got down from Lucknow Mail wearing the shoes of a daughter of a senior railway official.
According to the GRP(Bareilly), Divisional Railway Manager (East Coast Railway Zone) Vineet Singh had filed a theft complaint on her daughter’s behalf in Sambhalpur, Odisha, on January 5, alleging that her shoes worth Rs 10,000 was stolen from the AC first-class coach of Lucknow Mail on January 4.
“Since the daughter of the senior railway official suspected that the woman who got down from the train at Bareilly junction could have taken her shoes, the complaint was transferred to us by the third week of January,” said Ajit Pratap Singh, in-charge of the GRP at Bareilly railway station.
“We checked the January 4 CCTV footage of the entry and exit gates of Bareilly station but did not find any trace of the woman… We then sought help from the IRCTC officials to provide us with reservation details of the passengers of the AC first-class coach… It worked, and we zeroed in on the suspect,” Deputy SP (Bareilly GRP) Devi Dayal said.
According to the GRP, they traced the woman, a resident of Bareilly and questioned her.
“The woman told us she mistakenly wore the shoes when she got down at Bareilly station at around 3.45 am on January 4. She was in the same AC coach compartment in which the daughter of Vineet Singh, the Divisional Railway Manager at Odisha, was travelling along with her mother. Though she has accepted her mistake, we are yet to recover the shoes,” the GRP official said, adding that the action will be taken as per the law.
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