A youngster left his mobile phone number outside a reputed college building in Punjagutta after snatching one of its student’s Apple iPhone 6 but the police finally caught him.
The 21-year-old man from Mahabubnagar turned out to be a habitual snatcher, police sources said.
Interestingly, even the phone number which he pasted on the wall opposite the college building – turned out to be a stolen one.
“In fact, he gave that number since it was a stolen one, thinking that the police would not be able to trace him,” a police officer associated with the investigation of the case told The Hindu .
A degree student, the victim was travelling in a three-wheeler two weeks ago when the offender came on a bike. Even as she was attending a call, he grabbed the phone and sped away when the auto-rickshaw was near Jalagam Vengal Rao park.
She approached the Banjara Hills police.
The police started looking out for the suspect based on the details of the vehicle used by the accused and the latter’s description given by her – a paper with a mobile telephone number written on it was pasted on the wall opposite the college gate in Punjagutta.
“Call me on this number if you want your mobile phone back,” the paper read. He actually tried to paste the paper on the college gate. When the watchman raised an objection, he put it on the wall opposite the gate and went away.
This only further traumatised the student as her family was worried that the offender might be following her. They rushed back to the police who tried to analyse call data record of that number. Meanwhile, sleuths of Chikkadpally division police caught the snatcher on a tip-off.
He is being interrogated.
Traumatised family members of the victim, a college girl, breathe a sigh of relief
