IN 3 MONTHS, 13 LAKH FOUND IN DIFFERENT METRO STATIONS

Over the last three months, four people have got back bags containing cash and jewellery they had left at busy Metro stations, courtesy increased surveillance by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

The bags in these cases contained over ` 13 lakh in cash and jewellery worth ` 8 lakh.

“In most of the cases, the contact details helped us to identify the owners of these bags,” said Hemendra Singh, spokesperson of the CISF that guards the metro stations. Detection of such bags increased after CCTV surveillance in metro stations improved last year, he said.

The last incident took place on February 25 at the Jasola Apollo Metro station. In the afternoon, a CISF constable noticed an unattended bag lying at the output roller of the X-ray screening system. He checked the bag through the system and later it was opened in the presence of the station controller. An amount of ` 1 lakh along with some other documents were found. Within hours it was returned to a Libya resident, who forgot to pick it up from the scanner.

On February 3, the CISF staff had returned a hand bag containing ` 1.5 lakh to a commuter at Chandni Chawk Metro Station.

“Leaving bags containing cash at metro stations has become a common. In three days starting Thursday, as many as six bags containing cash were deposited to our ‘lost and found’ wing,” said a spokesperson of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). The CISF has increased its vigilance at metro stations as well as parking lot.