Pramesh S Jain
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel attached to Mangaluru Junction Railway Station on Sunday detained a man travelling with Unaccounted cash worth Rs.1.48 crore in cash and 800 grams of gold ornaments without any valid records on the Mumbai LTT-Ernakulam Duronto Express.
The accused has been identified as, Mahendra Singh Rao,33, hailing from Rajasthan.
Senior RPF officer told reporters,The operation, under the supervision of RPF Inspector,Manoj, was conducted by personnel K.Chithraraj, Satheesh Balaji, K.P. Sanjeev Kumar and K. Shajith.
The RPF personnel,who were conducting a preventive check on the Duronto Express (Train No 12223) that arrived at 10.20 a.m.at the Junction,examined the luggage of the man,who was occupying Berth 35 on S4 coach,and found currency bundles wrapped in old newspapers.
The accused was taken to the RPF Post where he informed the personnel that he was working for Shubh Gold,owned by Praveen Singh,in Kozhikode of Kerala.
A man known to his owner handed him six packs of currency notes and three packets of jewellery at Mumbai to be given to the owner,he told them.
The seized currency notes in Rs.2,000 and 500 denomination accounted for Rs.1,48,58,000, while the gold ornaments weighed around 800 grams,worth Rs.40 lakh,the RPF said in a communique.
The RPF personnel later handed over the man, identified as Mahendra Singh Rao (33),a native of Udaipur district in Rajasthan,to the Government Railway Police (GRP),Mangaluru Central,along with the seized material.
The GRP police have arrested the man after booking cases under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Karnataka Police Act.
Finally Senior Divisional Security Commissioner,Debashmita Chattopadhyay Banerjee,ADGP,Railways,Bhaskar Rao,has appreciated,SP, Railways,Dr Siri Gowri,RPF 
Inspector,Manoj,K.Chithraraj,Satheesh Balaji, K.P. Sanjeev Kumar and K.Shajith for the tremendous and exemplary work in nabbing the accused by their pro-active presence of mind while conducting search in train a special and suitable reward will be given to the whole team he added.
