Mumbai: Touched by a thief's story, cops help his family get closure

The Borivli GRP touched by a young train thiefs story that he had turned over a new leaf after his elder brother went missing a year ago went the extra mile to help try and trace him They quickly formed a special team and took just six hours to find out what had happenedDuring a recent drive to keep a check on onrecord criminals the Borivli GRP summoned a 20year old chainsnatcher Rakesh Chaudhary to update their records on his activities He told the cops that he had left behind his criminal past and had been helping his family earn a livelihood ever since his elder brother went missingThe police then crosschecked his claims and found that he was not bluffing Impressed the cops then decided to do something for Solanki in return for his changed ways They formed a special team and cracked the missing complaint in under six hours Sadly it turned out that the brother Rajesh had died in an accident almost a year agoRajesh who died in an accidentChaudhary the police said is a resident of Poisar in Borivli and had been involved in a series of mobile and chain thefts on local trains He lives with his parents His elder brother used to work in an imitation jewellery unitMoved by Chaudharys attempt to live a clean life and help out his parents we decided to help him track down his brother said Sujata Patil assistant commissioner of police Western Railway GRPInvestigationsA team from Borivli GRP checked the records of Samata Nagar police and found that there was a missing person complaint registered by the Chaudharys in August 2018 The team then took down the minutest details of the missing person Rajesh Chaudhary 27 Next the team was deputed to check the records of unclaimed bodies on railway tracksAfter a rigorous search of almost three to four hours and browsing through details of hundreds of dead bodies the investigators zeroed in on one of the bodies that matched Chaudharys descriptionThe family had told us that there was a tattoo of a trishul on one of his hands which one of the bodies did have We then showed the photographs of the deceased person to the Chaudharys added an officerA case that was pending for the past one year was cracked in the record time of just sixseven hours At least the family will now not live in false hope and Rakesh too will be more responsible towards his family Patil saidThe team that cracked the case was headed by police inspector R Nikam constables MK Mohite GN Tadvi PN Kumbhare and PC Pedhnekar They began searching through records of unidentified dead bodies and discovered that Chaudharys dead body had been found by the Borivli GRP on August 6 2018 said a GRP officerFather saysLallan Chaudhary Rakeshs father said he had gone several times to Samata Nagar police station to find out about his missing son We had filed the missing person case on August 5 Two months later the police told me that they had located Rajeshs mobile phoneThey said when they called the person who had the phone to the police station he said he had found it lying on the tracks I had wanted to speak to the man so that I could go back and trace the sequence of events but every time I approached the cops investigating the missing person complaints they said they were still working on the case They made me run around for a whole year I dont think they did any more work after the phone was foundHe added We would have known a year back what had happened to Rajesh instead of living in hope I am extremely grateful to the Borivli GRP for finding out what happened to my sonAlso ReadWoman fights stalker in elevator in Dahisar prevents chain snatchingCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates