Dehradun police have arrested a chain snatcher and recovered stolen gold items from his possession on Friday. The accused has been identified as Karamchand alias Motu, native of Bahadrabad, Haridwar. Pavan Kumar, resident of Dharampur, registered a complaint at Nehru Colony police station, stating that some bike-borne miscreants had snatched the gold chain of his grandmother when she had gone out for morning walk in the locality on March 17 and escaped.
Acting on the complaint, a case was registered against unidentified persons. SSP formed a team to crack all such cases reported from the city over the past few months. The team members reviewed CCTV footages around the incident site and got some clues regarding the case. From the footages, they identified the accused and the bike which they used for the crime.
Acting on a tip- off, police arrested one of the accused Motu from Bypass Choki, Nehru Colony. Police recovered a gold chain from his possession which the police said had been snatched from the elderly lady from Dharampur on March 17. Interrogation revealed that he had snatched chains from many in Raipur and Ajabpur Kala in the past. Cases have been registered against him in Raipur, Nehru Colony. Police said that the person arrested was an old hand in chain snatching.
He has been tagged to eight such cases in various police stations in Haryana.