Robbers strike on Seven Hills Express, rob woman passenger in Andhra Pradesh

Damage signalling equipment near Gooty to stop train

An unidentified gang of robbers snatched the gold ornaments of a woman passenger on the Seven Hills Express proceeding from Tirupati to Secunderabad after damaging the signalling equipment to stop the train, at Thurkapalli railway station, in Anantapur district, on Friday night.

When the robbers entered S5 and S7 compartments at 10 p.m., they tried to snatch jewellery from two women passengers but were successful only in once case as the second woman managed to hold her gold chain firmly.

Gooty Government Railway Police Circle Inspector B.V. Nagesh Babu said that Lakshmi Devi hailing from Perumallapalli, near Tirupati, lost 72.5 grams of gold ornaments. She was proceeding to Secunderabad.

The Gooty GRP has registered an FIR and is investigating if some persons already present in the compartment and their accomplice stopped the train to facilitate their escape. The passengers complained to the Gooty GRP personnel, who reached the spot and began investigation and a search is on for the culprits.

In November 2019, a 50-year-old man hailing from Bengaluru was robbed of ₹50,000 cash and thrown out of the Nanded Express train near Guntakal. The injured man, Govind Shetty, was lying along the railway track and was noticed by morning walkers who saved his life by shifting him to the government hospital in Guntakal. 

In December 2018 a pregnant woman Divya Sri was pushed out of Kondaveedu Express near Dharmavaram after rabbers snatched her gold ornaments. A similar attack took place with another married woman Sirisha, also travelling by the same train in the same coach, who was targeted in a similar manner at Zangalapalli in the district, but she managed to retaliate.