KOLKATA: A snatcher from Bangladesh, visiting India on a tourist visa, was caught red-handed by the cops from Paltform No. 3 of Sealdah station on Saturday.During investigation, the snatcher, Miraz Seikh (37), confessed he had been coming to India for the past several years to rob people. Generally, he used to stay for a month to carry out these activities.This incident took place barely four months after Kolkata Police nabbed two Bangladeshi women from the New Market area for robbing shoppers.Seikh was a resident of Dumuritala in Pirojpur’s Sarittala in Bangladesh.“We had received complaints of theft, pickpocketing and snatching at the station and a special drive was conducted by inspector Ajay Shankar of the crime intelligence branch of the Sealdah RPF and others, including ASI P Kumar as well as members of the special task force, RPF, Sealdah on Saturday. As people started boarding a Sealdah-Krishnagar Local, the team noticed a man lifting a mobile phone from a passenger’s pocket. Soon, the cops nabbed him and found two other mobile phones from him.During interrogation, Seikh confessed he used to visit India for a month every year to commit such crimes and take back the items to Bangladesh, where they fetched a good price,” an RPF officer said.Seikh claimed he had first entered India with a friend, who taught him how to make money in this way. Since then, he would apply for a month-long tourist visa every year with his legitimate passport and reach Kolkata.

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