Delhi teacher held for stealing women's bags from metro station X-ray machines
India Today
A Delhi teacher was arrested for stealing women's bags from X-ray machines at metro stations on Saturday.
A 26-year-old teacher of paramedics was arrested for allegedly stealing women's bags from the X-ray machines at Delhi Metro stations.
A resident of Uttam Nagar, the accused, Garima Pandey, is a post-graduate in Microbiology and recently joined a private institute for paramedics as a teacher, a senior police official said.
Police said that for the last 15 to 20 days, complaints of theft have been received at various police stations of the Delhi Police's Metro Unit.
On January 11, a woman complained that she had kept her bag in the X-Ray machine of Uttam Nagar Metro station and when she went to pick it up after frisking, it was nowhere to be found. Upon scanning CCTV footage, it was revealed that a woman had picked it up, the official said.
A similar incident happened on January 29 at Uttam Nagar East metro station, on January 30 at Uttam Nagar West metro station and on January 24 at Rithala metro station, police said.
On Friday, police saw a woman outside Uttam Nagar West metro station who was similar to the one seen in CCTV footage, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Metro) Jitendra Mani said.
During interrogation, the accused refused any of the allegations but relented after being shown the CCTV footage, the DCP said.
