Summary:
more-inTwo women constables caught a man for trying to steal the purse of a passenger at Matunga station at 11.45 a.m.
on September 7. During interrogation, the man admitted that he had also committed a theft at Dadar station a few days ago. The accused was identified as Arvind Kishore Pawse, 29, who lived on the footpath outside Matunga station and picked pockets to survive. Railway Protection Force constable Swati Patil and Mahila Vahini staff member Pooja Sharma were on duty at the station when they heard a commotion and shouts of ‘chor, chor’. The police recovered the wallet containing ?5,300 stolen from Dadar station and handed it over to its owner Damodar Arya, 53, from Rabale in Navi Mumbai..