How Cops Nabbed Snatcher ‘Holed Up' Inside A Flyover

Team Painstakingly Tracks Down Criminal Hiding In Dark Alley

New Delhi: It was a cat-and-mouse game between cops and a snatcher fleeing after assaulting a woman and relieving her of her mobile phone near the flyover at Kashmere Gate. Though the criminal entered the “cavities” at the flyover and disappeared, the cops gave chase through a pitch-dark alley and resolved the case within an hour.

The incident was quickly handled because Anto Alphonse, DCP (North), had mapped the snatching hotspots in the district and asked the station house officers to secure them. Accordingly, SHO Dharmender had deployed teams in civvies and in uniform at select spots on Outer Ring Road.

On October 31, an elderly woman, her hand and knees showing abrasions, approached one such team. She said a man wearing a yellow sherwani had snatched her phone and purse and dragged her on the road when she resisted the snatching attempt. She said the man had fled towards the flyover.