Chennai: Two juvenile girls were detained and sent to the correction home in Kellys after they snatched a mobile phone from a youth near Chennai Central railway, on Wednesday night.
According to police, A Thaniz (16), resident of Periamet, was walking near the Vepery high road around 10.30 pm on Wednesday, when two girls on a bike approached him and asked for his phone to make an emergency call.
Thaniz at first hesitated, but gave it as the girls pretended to be lost, and said they were searching for their brother.
He said the girls pretended to dial a number and saying there were network problems, moved a little away from him, and in a moment they fled.
He immediately raised an alarm and passersby chased the girls and managed to nab them.
They were handed over to the Periamet police, who sent them to the government correction home in Kellys.
