Chennai: Mobile snatchers and chain snatchers were arrested after three mobile snatching incidents occurred in the city on Monday night. Athithi Doss was returning after an event at a hotel on Sterling road in Nungambakkam on Monday night. At around 10.30pm, two men on a bike snatched her mobile and fled the spot. Probe is on.
Early Tuesday at around 3.45am, police caught B. Vijayakumar (18) of Maduravoyal during a vehicle check at Choolaimedu. The police found that he was returning after stealing two mobile phones after questioning him. Further investigation showed that the owner of the phones was P. Thyagaraja (34) of Velappanchavadi in Poonamallee, and the phone was snatched when he was at Thiruverkadu. The case was registered at the Thiruverkadu police and Vijayakumar was remanded In the third incident, the phone of Umesh Kumar Yadav (20), a cleaner in a goods truck was stolen, when he stopped near Nathamuni theatre on New Avadi Road at around 3.30am to ask directions. A man immediately snatched his mobile. Umesh alerted the patrol police who spotted the man on Vellalar street in Ambattur and arrested him, said a police officer. In another incident, D. Glory Visabhai (53) a resident of Kolathur was walking on New Avadi Road , when a man snatched her 13.5 sovereign gold chain and fled. Police arrested Sony Raj (38) at Peram
bur a police officer said. Probe reveals Sony Raj had 12 pending snatching cases against him.
