Panchkula, November 24
The Sector 19 Crime Branch of the Panchkula police here today claimed to have arrested two chain snatchers.
The suspects have been identified as Arif, a native of Rampru Maniharan in Saharanpur district, and Shahdab, a resident of Kashiram Colony, Saharanpur, and presently living in Dayalpur in Zirakpur, Mohali district.
The police said complainant Mony Chaudhary, a resident of Sector 11, said while she was returning from Sector 14 after some work, two scooty-borne miscreants came from behind and snatched her chain on July 28.
A case under Section 378-A of the IPC was registered at the Sector 5 police station. A team of the Sector 19 Crime Branch arrested the duo. The suspects were produced in a court, which remanded them to two-day police custody.