Indian Railways — Robbery of gold ornaments and cash

Address:	590001
Website:	www.cosumercomplaint.in/complaints/indianrailways

Respected sir,

Since you have proved yourself as a most efficient railway minister in the ministry of railways, govt. Of india, i respectfully wish to bring to your kind notice the incident happened with me while travelling with my age old parents of age 75 years approximately and my two little children from ltt mumbai to belgawi on monday 15/05/2017 by train no. 17318 / ltt hubli express in the reserved coach of second sleeper class with seat / bearth numbers 57 to 60 in s1 coach and seat no. 42 in s3 coach in tatkal reservation.

Sir, i was travelling by ltt hubli express train which departed from lokmanya tilak terminus railway station at mumbai on 15/05/2017 at 6.45pm. The train reached belgavi railway station on following day on 16/05/2017 at 07.45am. As the train approached belgawi railway station, few minutes before arrival at the belgawi railway station my father who is a senior citizen of 75 years old, took our baggage near the door / toilet of the train bogie to facilitate smooth dis-embarkation of all o[censored]s on arrival at belgawi railway station. While my father was keeping our baggage near the door, four young boys possibly a/c attendents of a/c coach, and railway employees in railway uniform (Two boys in blue colour railway uniform and other two boys in brown colour railway uniform) approached my father and they lifted the one big suitcase kept on the floor by my father and they kept it on the top of other luggage and four of them camouflaged all the luggage bags to distract attention of my father. My father did not suspect any miscreant act by four of them at that particular moment. But we found them laughing and looking at us in suspectable gesture after getting off at the belgavi railway station.

Sir, on arrival at belgawi railway station we immediately went to our house. On reaching our house when we opened our baggage, we found that, my mother’s six gold bangles and cash worth rs.15500/- (Rupees fifteen thousand five hundred) was missing from one of the bags. We strongly suspect that, the four boys who were in railway uniform and looking as air condition attendents present in the bogie and when they camouflage the bag to distract my father’s attention; have played a mischief and removed the gold bangles and cash from the bag with the intention of robbery and stolen the gold bangles costing approximately rupees two lakhs fifty thousand and cash worth rs.15500/- from the bag. The gold bangles were weighing approximately eighty grammes costing rupees two lakhs fifty thousand approximately. The total approximate cost of the goods we lost is about rupees two lakhs sixtyfive thousand five hundred of gold bangles and cash.

Sir, i therefore humbly request you to look into the matter, investigate the robbery incident happened in the train, inform railway police to search and find out the miscreants/thieves/robbers who in my opinion are railway employees (Air condition attendents) who were on duty in railway uniform on that particular train and in our coach number s1 of ltt hubli express train on 15/05/2017, travelling from ltt mumbai to belgavi. I also humbly request you to arrange to catch the thieves as early as possible and recover the goods stolen by the thieves and return it to me at the earliest. I have immediately lodged a complaint with belgavi railway police station on 17/05/2017 and also fir (First information report) with railway police at belgavi railway station on 20/05/2017 as directed by the police inspector of belgavi railway station. The copy of fir is enclosed herewith for your kind information and record please.

Sir, i am sure you will do the needful to catch the robbers with the help of railway police and arrange to return my stolen goods and i look forward to hear from you in this robbery case as early as possible.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

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(Mrs. Vidya pratik lubri)