The Railway Protection Force (RPF) Secunderabad division recovered and returned forgotten passenger belongings worth ₹1,01,81,346 in 219 cases this year, while also rescuing 150 children and 10 adults, a senior railway security official said on RPF Raising Day on Sunday.
Alakuntla Naveen Kumar, senior divisional security commissioner of the Railway Protection Force, said the recoveries were made under Operation Amanat, an initiative aimed at securing and returning belongings left behind by railway passengers. The retrieved items included mobile phones, gold and laptops, according to the RPF account reported by Deccan Chronicle.
The value of the recovered property indicates the range of financial losses that can arise when passengers leave valuables on trains or at railway premises. Under Operation Amanat, the RPF/SC handled 219 cases and returned the belongings to their rightful owners, the official said. The report did not provide a case-wise breakdown of the items, stations or time taken for the returns.
The division also detected 71 cases involving theft of passenger belongings under Operation Yatri Suraksha. Stolen property valued at ₹13,42,140 was recovered, according to the official. The operation forms part of the RPF’s passenger-security work on the Secunderabad railway network, although the report did not specify the locations of the theft cases or the status of prosecutions.
The RPF further reported a targeted drive against the illegal transportation of narcotic substances through the railway network. The drive led to the seizure of 230.54 kg of ganja and other narcotics valued at ₹14,10,00,950. The report did not identify the individual seizures, routes, accused persons or subsequent legal action.
Passenger and public-safety responsibilities at railway stations extend beyond protection of railway property. The figures cited by the Secunderabad RPF include interventions involving vulnerable people. Naveen Kumar said RPF personnel safely rescued 150 children and reunited them with their families or non-governmental organisations. Ten adults were also rescued and rehabilitated, he said.
The child-rescue figure was not accompanied by details on the circumstances of the rescues, the stations involved or the organisations that assisted with reunification. Similarly, the report did not specify the rehabilitation arrangements for the 10 adults.
The figures were presented during the RPF’s Raising Day observance and cover operations carried out during the year, according to the official statement reported by Deccan Chronicle. The RPF’s next operational steps, including further passenger-property recovery, theft detection, narcotics enforcement and assistance to vulnerable people, were not detailed in the report.
