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Pickpocket wanted in 12 cases caught in Mumbai Metro

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Mumbai: A pickpocket with nearly two dozen cases on Mumbai’s congested suburban railway system behind him was finally nabbed after he dodged detection for a year, an official said here on Tuesday.

Ganesh Gangurade, a mall employee in Thane, complained that on the morning of September 16 his wallet containing Rs.10,000 in cash and some personal documents was picked from his backpack at the Ghatkopar Metro Station.

The Mumbai Metro One Pvt. Ltd. (MMOPL) security swung into action to help him lodge a complaint with Chirag Nagar police station and also pored over CCTV footage to track the pickpocket.

After a close scrutiny, the Metro security finally zeroed in on the suspect who was in the vicinity of the 25-year-old Gangurade at that time.

The suspect’s profile and a lookout notice was circulated among the Metro security and finally on Monday morning, the culprit was apprehended.

After a thorough check, the 30-year-old suspect, Mahendra Kumar Gupta, was detained and questioned by Metro security staff, following which he broke down and confessed to his crimes.

A resident of Panvel in adjoining Raigad district, Gupta admitted to having picked pockets of over two dozen victims in the past one year or so on the Mumbai suburban railway network.

He has been handed over to Mumbai police for further action.

“We accord the highest priority to the safety and security of our passengers and their belongings. The fact that the suspect was caught… makes it clear that MMOPL is not safe for pickpockets,” an official spokesperson said.

On all the 12 stations on the city’s first Metro railway between Versova-Ghatkopar, 750 CCTVs have been installed.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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