LUCKNOW, April 14 -- Police on Tuesday arrested four members of an inter-state theft gang, run largely by women, after a woman sub-inspector (S-I) went undercover to track their movements over several days, officials said.

"The Krishna Nagar police, along with the south zone surveillance team, arrested three women and a man from the Manas Nagar area on Monday," officials said at a press conference.

Police said the accused were part of a family-run gang involved in multiple incidents of jewellery theft from commuters.

What set the operation apart, officials said, was the role of the local women police team, which carried out discreet surveillance. "A woman sub-inspector, in plain clothes and different disguises, kept watch on suspected ...