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BareillyHad the thieves known she was the wife of the man in charge of securing the railways, they would perhaps have stopped themselves. But as luck would have it, they didn't. In an incident that has left the police red faced, the wife of IG, Railway Protection Force (RPF), was robbed as she was travelling in the AC 1 coach of the 2430 New Delhi-Lucknow Express.What's more, she was with her husband Anjani Kumar, an IG posted at the RPF Academy in Lucknow, along with a bunch of security personnel.Sources confirmed that the theft had taken place near the Bareilly railway station and that it left Kumar's wife Chandra Rani poorer by Rs 1.50 lakh.Kumar has filed an FIR with government railway police (GRP), Lucknow, which in turn has transferred the case to GRP Bareilly since the incident took place under the latter's jurisdiction.Sources said that as the train reached Bareilly railway station, Rani raised an alarm on finding her purse to be missing. After a frantic search, security personnel found it near the toilet of the compartment but the purse had been emptied out.Talking to TOI, superintendent of police (railways), Vaibhav Krishna, said, “The incident has come to our notice and we are investigating the matter. However, no arrests have been made so far.”Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a senior GRP official said, “It is very shocking, considering the fact that the IG and his wife were accompanied by an escort of RPF. But they were caught napping and the thieves made away with the cash in the purse."