JAMALPUR, June 28: A mobile court here sentenced six women pickpockets to one month jail each at Jamalpur Railway station on Monday.
The convicted pickpockets were Jahanara Begum,45, Mafia Begum,40, Aujufa Begum,30, Rabeya Begum,30, Runa Begum,28, and Abeda Khatun, 20, of Nachhir Nagar upazila under Brahmanbaria district.
According to Railway police, the woman gang pickpockets were caught red handed by on-duty police while stealing money from passengers' pockets in crowded railway station on Monday afternoon.
Later, the arrested pickpockets were produced before the mobile court of Executive Magistrate Padmasan Singha where he sentenced them one month jail each after examining witnesses.