Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, August 1 : Following
the incident of three year old girl who was stolen from Tatanagar railway
station and was later raped and killed , the railway police is working on ways
of strictly monitoring of CCTV cameras at the railway station. At present
Tatanagar railway station is equipped with 96 CCTV cameras.
The railway police said that they monitor the footage of the CCTV cameras
round-the-clock from a control room.
Inspector, Railway Protection Force (RPF) MK Sahoo said that the personnel of RPF are active to prevent criminal acts like pickpocket, luggage lifting or snatching.
” We are monitoring
screen of the CCTV round the clock for taking notice of any criminal moving
suspiciously on the platform,” claimed the RPF inspector.
Sahoo said so far as the act of stealing the three-year-old baby is concerned,
how could the RPF personnel who were on duty of monitoring the CCTV camera
footage determined the person lifting the child was not a relative.
“We are keep strict vigil but if anyone lifts a child from the lap of a
woman’s lap, it is difficult to conclude that the person is a
child-thief. But now we will launch awareness campaign among the people
at the railway platform against the child lifting case,” the RPF inspector
said.
The three-year-old girl was stolen from her mother’s lap at Tatanagar station
platform No 2 on the night of July 25, leading the young woman to lodge a
complaint with the GRP, Tatanagar the next day.
The child was lifted
while her mother was sleeping with her paramour in the night. Five days later,
the police recovered the kid’s headless body from a bush near the ISWP
fabrication unit boundary wall. Rinku Kumar, the 38-year-old culprit was
arrested. from his house at Ramadhin Bagan in Telco on Tuesday night. Another
person, 37-year-old Kailash Kumar, who is an accomplice of Sahu, was also
arrested for being involved in the ghastly incident.
The Chhotanagarpur Passengers Association’s (CPA) secretary Arun Tiwary had
shared video clipping through social media as to how do a couple come to a
platform during the night and steal a baby boy from the lap of a sleeping
mother at a railway platform of an unidentified railway station.
