CHENNAI: A newborn girl was found abandoned in an electric train at the Central railway station by personnel of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) on Thursday night.Sources said, RPF constable B Kannan found the baby under a seat in the Gummidipoondi-Chennai Central train, which arrived on platform 12 around 11.15 pm, during a routine check for unclaimed luggage.The RPF constable then alerted the station master and handed over the infant to the personnel of the Government Railway Force (GRF), who registered a case. The GRF personnel, who later sent the baby to a government children’s hospital in Egmore, suspect that the baby was only two-days-old. In a similar incident two months ago, a baby girl was found abandoned in an electric train that was bound for Chennai Central from Tiruvallur, the sources added.Rs 3 Lakh Stolen from ShopBurglars decamped with Rs 3 lakh from a shop selling used cars, at Thirumangalam on Thursday night. According to sources, Ashok Kumar sold a car for Rs 3 lakh on Thursday and locked the cash in a drawer inside his shop on Thirumangalam Main Road.However, when he arrived at the shop on Friday morning, he found the shutters broken and the cash stolen. Ashok Kumar subsequently lodged a complaint with the Thirumangalam police.Two Pimps Arrested, Women RescuedThe Anti-Vice Squad (AVS) nabbed two pimps from two hotels and rescued two women, at Thyagaraya Nagar on Thursday. Acting on information that a man from New Delhi, who was staying in a business class hotel in Thyagaraya Nagar, was running a prostitution racket through the Internet, an AVS team laid a trap for him.Using a decoy, the team arrested the man, who was identified as Jitendra Bhandari (32), and rescued a sex worker from Kolkata.In a similar incident, an AVS team raided a hotel on G N Chetty Road and arrested Shahnaz from Kerala and rescued a woman from Kolkata.While the two pimps were remanded by a court, the rescued women were sent to a government shelter.Murdered Man IdentifiedThe body of a man, with injuries on the head, that was found on Seventh Street in Vyasar Nagar at Vyasarpadi on January 12, was identified as that of Ramesh of Dr Ambedkar Nagar in Ayanavaram. Investigations revealed that he was married with three children and worked in a hotel at Periamet.Police sources said that Ramesh’s friends and co-workers were being questioned in connection with Ramesh’s murder.
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