India, Oct. 1 -- Two women arrested in a suspected railway wire theft case pulled off a dramatic escape from the RPF lock-up in Belapur in the early hours of September 28, allegedly breaking the lock and tying their sarees to a generator in the police station balcony to climb down the building. One of the women was caught within hours, while the other remains on the run, police said.

Rupali Kailas Kurhade, 30, from Jalna district, and Shalibai Ashok Pawar, 40, from Bhiwandi, had been arrested on September 26 over the alleged theft of overhead electric wire from a godown at Juinagar railway station.

The theft was reported to the RPF by the concerned railway office on September 24. The Belapur RPF registered a case under Section 3(a) of t...