The man to whom the assailant had allegedly sold the victim's mobile phone was picked up by the police in Hindupur town in Andhra Pradesh and was being questioned for leads.
The Bangalore police picked up the man who was sold the phone from Hindupur on Wednesday night and were further interrogating him with regard to the assailant after they recovered the mobile phone from him, according to a senior police official in Anantpur. The phone was snatched from the woman by the lone attacker.
Two days after the 38-year-old officer with Corporation Bank was attacked with a machete inside an unguarded ATM kiosk in Bangalore, the Karnataka Police Chief said the assailant has been identified and efforts are on to catch him.