MP Nagar police have nabbed three miscreants involved in snatching a gold chain from a female teacher on August 21 near Rachna Nagar under-bridge on Tuesday.
Police said that acting on a tip off two miscreants were nabbed near Subhash Nagar crematorium and when they were quizzed they confessed the crime along with their accomplice.
The two nabbed accused were identified as Sudheer Sharma alias Pandit (30) and Umesh Shrivastava (27) while the third accused was identified as Rashid (23).
Accused confessed that Sudheer and Umesh were on the same bike while Rashid was on another bike at the time of the incident.
Police said that Sudheer is a pick picketer and is a watch list criminal under Aishbagh police station he has been booked for serious offences. The accused has been booked for Theft, assault, molestation, sexual assault, attempt to murder by different police stations of the city.
Umesh and Rashid are heavily addicted to drugs and have confessed that have taken Nitrovate used by addicts before committing the crime.
The accused have planned robbery twice in the past but due to continuous vehicle checking drive they failed.
Notably a 40-year-old female teacher Prabha Gupta was robbed of her gold-chain worth `30000 by two bike borne miscreants near Rachna Nagar under bridge while on her way to Central School 1 in the morning on August 21.
The victim works as teacher with Central School 1 and is a resident of Rachna Nagar.