[Resolved]  Indian Railways — Theft in Chennai-Kaveri Express

Myself and my husband were traveling in Chennai-Kaveri Express Train No. 6221 from chennai to Bangalore on May 1, 2009. It was a reservation compartment in which our seat numbers 52 and 53 middle berth in S9. We reached Bangalore at about 4:10 a.m. and found our grey-colored VIP suitcase with green color military cloth cover missing. It contained about 81 grams of gold, clothes and miscellaneous things. The suitcase was kept below the lower berth on the rear side which was not easily visible. It was instructed by one of the copassengers to be kept there since the suitcase was quite heavy and big. The copassenger also kept his luggages beside ours. We were awake till 3:30 in the morning and fell asleep after that and woke up only in Bangalore City Railway Station at around 4:10. While gathering our belongings, we found our suitcase to be missing and the copassenger was also not there, and we do not know where he got down. Imediately, we lodged a complaint against theft in Bangalore CIty Railway Police Station in Platform No.6. We were directed to submit one more complaint in Cotonment Railway Station Bangalore since the suitcase may have been stolen between 3:30 and 4:10 period in which train passes through contonment to city station. Therefore we filed an FIR in contonment railway station also on May 3, 2009. We have also specified in the complaint that we are suspicious about our copassenger who instructed us to place the suitcase below the lower berth. He is aged about 40 to 45 years and having fair complexion. He looks like a north indian and was speaking only Hindi and English very rarely. His height may be about 5 feet 3 inches approximately and moderately built.

Following are the details of the things lost,
1. One long gold chain (Haram) with green enamel of 27 grams.
2. One plain necklace of 27 grams.
3. One Designed Bangle of 16 grams.
4. One pair of ear hangings with 4 pearls and pink stones 6 grams.
5. One pair of ear studs with red stone 3 grams.
6. One baby finger ring with green stone of 1 gram.
7. One finger ring with 4 pearls and 1 pink stone of 3 grams.
8. Two Designer sarees (light green and light pink)
9. One ordinary dark green with white flower saree.
10. Dark violet with mustard colored border silk cotton saree.
11. Two nighties (Dark violet and white).
12. One orange top and green bottom churidar.
13. Four inskirts and miscellaneous.

I request the concerned authorities to kindly take necessary action against this case and please retrieve the same.

BY,
D. Susheela
Inspector of Income Tax
Income Tax Quarters
Block A/10, 88
Barracah Road Nammalvarpet
Chennai-600011
Mobile No. [protected]