Overview

• Bhopal GRP detained Faizan in Baramulla for stealing a passenger’s phone on the Rajdhani Express and transferring ₹5.5 lakh from the victim’s bank account.
• Pune shop CCTV helped trace stolen funds to an iPhone purchase, leading to the arrest of Faizan’s accomplice Shaukat in Bangalore.
• Mumbai GRP officers arrested 25-year-old Tufail Raza Akhtar Memon at Kalyan station and recovered 21 stolen phones valued at over ₹4 lakh.
• Memon confessed to using ‘reiki’ surveillance on sleeping passengers to steal valuables and funding his online gaming addiction with the proceeds.
• Follow-up investigations by GRP, RPF and Crime Branch are under way to dismantle cross-state networks exploiting mobile banking vulnerabilities.