Bar girl turns thief, arrested in Mumbai

A former bar girl-turned-thief arrested was arrested by the Thane railway police on Friday. The police recovered gold and silver ornaments and cash worth Rs3 lakh from her.

“Twenty-two-year-old Yasmin Pasha Sheikh alias Reshma Chinnu, a Parel resident, was arrested and remanded to police custody till Sunday by the Kalyan railway court,” said senior police inspector Hanumantha Jadhav of Thane railway police station.

Yasmin began committing crime in the railways to earn a livelihood for herself and her two teenaged children. She was arrested by the railway police several times over the last three years.

The police team caught her red handed while she alighted at Thane station from the ladies compartment of a CST-bound local with a stolen necklace, cash, gold and silver ornaments. The police recovered five empty purses from her Panvel home, too.