Snatchers target woman at Metro stop, threaten her with gun outside

A 22-year-old woman was allegedly the victim of a snatching incident in an unusual place on Saturday - inside the premises of the Jafrabad Metro station in northeast Delhi. The woman, according to her complaint to the police, ran after the man who snatched her phone, only for a second person waiting outside the Metro station to threaten her with a gun.

- Hemani Bhandari

Deputy commissioner of police (Metro) Ram Gopal Naik said that a case under sections 379 and 356 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered, and is being investigated by an assistant sub-inspector.

Isha Gupta, a resident of Mandawali in east Delhi, told HT that she was on her way home after work she is a make-up artiste - at 8pm on Saturday, and had entered the Jafrabad Metro station, an elevated station on the Pink Line, when the incident occurred. "I was going up to the Metro station on the escalator, right before the baggage screening area. A man was behind me and when I took out my phone from my jacket, he snatched it. He then began running down the escalator that was going up," she said, adding that the distance between the escalators and baggage screening is about 300 metres.