kalyan the kalyan railway crime branch on thursday arrested four thieves and solved eight cases related to robbery and theft of female passengers in longdistance trains between kalyan and karjat railway stations in maharashtras thane and raigad districts respectivelythe gang would steal purses of female passengers who slept while travelling or of those women who stood near windows those arrested were identified as ravi gaikwad ganesh rathod tanaji shinde and prakash nagarkoje the railway crime branch officials said that during the last few months there has been an uptick in cases of such thefts in mail express trains railway police commissioner ravindra shisve had given instructions to kalyan government railway police as well kalyan crime branch to nab thievesa kalyan crime branch team led by arshad shaikh began checking cctv footage and traced ravi gaikwad first gaikwad revealed about the involvement of three others whom the crime branch nabbed from punethe accused were arrested multiple times earlier and thus the police solved at least eight offences and recovered rs 85 lakh gold jewellery and five mobile phones stolen by them