Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)

Udupi, May 26: Poornima, daughter of Sridhar Mendon from Padubidri in the district, and her husband, Kiran, who had boarded a train bound for Mumbai at Padubidri station on Tuesday may 24, have reportedly lost gold ornaments worth about two lac rupees kept in a bag they carried with them. In a complaint filed with the Konkan Railway Police in Manipal on Wednesday May 25, Sridhar Mendon has complained that the couple realized that their ornaments had been stolen, when they checked their baggage on reaching Ankola railway station.

The couple had got into S7 coach of the train, although their reserved seats were in S5 coach, as S5 coach was located beyond the small platform of Padubidri station. As Kiran Kanchan went in search of his seats, Poornima had stayed in S7 coach, waiting for him come back. She informed her father that a number of people were around her at the time, and feels that some among them were thieves.

The couple said that a group of seven to eight youth, who had bought unreserved tickets to Madgaon, had travelled in the reserved compartments. The railway ticket examiner had informed that this group got down at Udupi station after repeatedly being asked to go to unreserved compartment. The couple feel that they could not have lost their ornaments if the length of the platform at Padubidri station was not short.