Foul Play at Railway Station, Raipur

This is to bring to your kind notice that we were robbed of our gold ornaments worth about Rs.5.00 lacs on July 2^nd, 2011 while we were travelling from Pune to Raipur in Bilaspur Express.

The incident had happened just before reaching Raipur station, when 5-6 youth encircled our luggage near exit and stole all our ornaments from the luggage.

When we realized of the incident on reaching our residence, we came back to the railway police station to lodge an FIR, we were made to write an application and the same was acknowledged but no FIR was lodged.

On persistent follow-up we were finally able to lodge an FIR (numbered 83/2011) on July 8^th, 2011. Thereafter we have been continuously following up with railway station police Incharge for update but could not get any assuring feedback.

We also tried to get in touch with the Rail Superintendent of Police but he also pretended as if he knew nothing about the case inspite of the fact that station Incharge had briefed him of the case during our earlier visits to the station.

The more concerning fact was realized when we came to know that there is no video recording for the duration when our train arrived at Raipur station till it left.  Therefore, there is no CCTV footage of the suspects and we doubt a foul play in this.

When we enquired about the same we were told that we should not worry about that as its not going to help much. Also when we expressed our desire to get this report published in local daily, the staff at the police station reacted aggressively and said that such action will spoil the entire case and we will not be able to recover anything by this.

 We would request your intervention as we are loosing trust in the ability or willingness of the concerned official in resolving our case. You would agree that it was not any petty loss but a big loss to an individual, but we have not been able to get any positive response.

I am sure if thorough investigation will be carryout, it is not tough to catch these robbers. I believe passengers are getting robbed every day on the same route (????), if useful initiative will be taken by the ministry of railway can avoid this kind of robbery or mishaps.

 

Your Sincerely

Ravi Sinha/Reena Sinha

9923102140/9325033479

Pune.