Delhi Metro Police Busts Two Gangs of Women Pickpockets, Recovers Valuables Worth Rs 25 Lakh

New Delhi, Feb 20: While travelling in Delhi Metro, if you find yourself surrounded by women and one of them falls unconscious, think twice before rushing to help. The women could be members of a gang

Written by: India.com News Desk

Updated: February 20, 2018, 1:09 PM IST

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New Delhi, Feb 20: While travelling in Delhi Metro, if you find yourself surrounded by women and one of them falls unconscious, think twice before rushing to help. The women could be members of a gang which pickpockets in Delhi Metro. Recently, the Delhi Metro police arrested two women thieves who had stolen items, including gold and diamond jewellery, worth more than Rs 25 lakh.

A man, Gurvinder Singh, on Friday approached the Delhi Metro police after his jewellery was stolen in the metro. According to a Times of India report, Deputy commissioner of police (metro) Pankaj Kumar Singh formed a team and they scanned CCTV footage at the station. The team managed to nab the gang of women thieves before they could commit their next crime.

During the interrogation, the accused women revealed their modus operandi. The gang worked in groups of three to 10. To avoid suspicion, few carried babies with them. The women thieves would sit next to their targets. Once the metro gets crowded, they would zip open the bags of their victims and steal valuables.

They would immediately pass on the stolen valuables to other gang members so that the one sitting next to the victim would get away scot-free if a search was conducted. The gang members get off the train one by one at different stations to avoid suspicion. The accused women are natives of Maharashtra and had shifted to Delhi a few years ago. They took to crime as they had no means to a livelihood and their husbands were jobless.

The arrest led to jewellery worth over Rs 15 lakh being recovered from them. The police had earlier recovered stolen goods worth Rs 10 lakh from the second gang busted earlier this week. Most of the theft cases are reported from interchange stations like Rajiv Chowk and Kashmere Gate. Around 11,000 FIRs in connection with theft were registered with the metro police in the past one year.