According to sources, a notorious inter-state pickpocket, who was allegedly involved in more than 400 cases since 2004 and 36 cases against him this year alone, was arrested by the government Railway police and RPF. Meanwhile a total of 668 grams of gold and Rs 13.53 lakh in cash was recovered from him. Further investigations, officials said, were the wealth accumulated by the accused, identified as Thander Singh Kushva. The GRP said that he had rented a high-end flat in Hyderabad's Chandanagar area for Rs 30,000 a month and his daughter and son admitted to a posh international school in the city, with an annual fee of Rs 2 lakh each, officials said. .
Reportedly Singh, who is from Uttar Pradesh, had shifted to pune in 2004 and plied his trade in trains in the Pune-Secunderabad sector. He stole cash and gold ornaments worth over Rs 2 crore from passengers during this period and used it to acquire assets, including plots. Further investigators said that he had been arrested and had been released on multiple occasions, whereupon he again used to take his profession.
Accordingly, they would either buy a reserved or an unreserved ticket and board a train, following which they would strike unsuspecting passengers, making off with cash and valuables worth at least Rs 20,000 each. He used to make eight such trips per month and had not been arrested since 2015,
