Mumbai: Man involved in multiple incidents of stone-pelting on trains arrested
Mumbai (PTI): A man allegedly involved in several incidents of stone-pelting on suburban trains has been arrested in a joint operation by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP), officials said on Friday.
The accused, identified as Naushad Ali Abdul Wahid Shaikh, was nabbed on Thursday based on a tip-off, CCTV footage and past records, they said.
After at least three women passengers were injured in stone-pelting incidents between suburban Reay Road and Sewri stations, railway security agencies had launched a probe.
During interrogation, the accused confessed to pelting stones at trains on September 22 and 26 near Reay Road station, targeting women commuters travelling in ladies' compartments, officials said.
He also admitted to throwing a stone at a local train between Sewri and Wadala stations on September 18, injuring a woman passenger.
In another incident two months ago, the accused had allegedly thrown a steel chair frame from a moving train between Sewri and Cotton Green stations out of fear when confronted by passengers.
According to officials, the man had been previously arrested by RPF Wadala in 2023 and 2024 for stone-pelting and damaging ATVM ticketing machines, and had served jail terms.
A court has currently remanded him in judicial custody, they added.
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J-K: Six held with drugs, assets worth Rs 73 lakh attached in Udhampur
Jammu (PTI): Six persons were taken into custody during an intensified anti-narcotics crackdown, with police recovering contraband substances and over Rs 23 lakh in Doda and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Monday.
In a parallel action, properties worth over Rs 73 lakh linked to drug peddlers were also attached in Udhampur district under relevant legal provisions, the police said.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Doda, Mohd Aslam said three persons, including a woman, were detained during a raid on a house at Dak Mohalla in the main town following recovery of 85 grams of suspected brown sugar and over Rs 23 lakh on Sunday evening.
He identified the woman as Zareena Begum, stating that she had been under police surveillance following inputs indicating her involvement in drug peddling.
Besides Zareena, officials said her daughter and son-in-law were also picked up by police during the raid.
“We have taken three individuals into custody. Their roles are being examined, and based on that, arrests will be made. We are continuing raids at other suspected locations,” Aslam said.
Three drug peddlers --Pardeep Singh of Hiranagar, Rahees Butt of Billawar and Ali Sen of Amritsar (Punjab) -- were arrested along with heroin at different places in Kathua district, a police spokesman said.
He said while 2.79 gm of heroin was seized from Singh, 2.66 gm were recovered Butt. Similarly, 303 gm of heroin was seized from Sen who was intercepted near Berrian-Pattan village while moving in a private car from Bhagthali to Maggar Khad on the Jammu-Pathankot highway.
All the three were booked under the NDPS Act and further investigations are on, the spokesman said.
In Udhampur, the spokesman said properties worth Rs 73 lakh were attached in two separate cases registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The attached properties included a newly constructed residential house, a car, a motorcycle and a mobile phone with a total value of Rs 65 Lakh, belonging to accused Saif Ali who was booked under the NDPS case in Majalta area early this year, he said.
In another action, movable property worth Rs 8 lakh comprising a car, belonging to accused Danish Butt of Doda has been attached under Section 68(F) NDPS Act in connection with an FIR registered at Rehambal police station, the spokesman said.
