A couple hit a 19-year-old girl, working in a beauty parlour, and made away with her gold chain near the busy Surathkal market in Mangalore on Friday morning. Onlookers chased and caught the couple.
According to Surathkal police, Suman (26), native of Rajastan, visited to Surabhi Beauty Parlour for facial. When 19-year-old Akshata asked to pay the charges, Suman reportedly said she would get it from Sandeep Kumar (34), who was standing outside the parlour.
Suman reportedly called her husband into the shop for payment. Akshata refused to allow him inside. But Sandeep Kumar came in and hit Akshata with a sharp weapon. He then snatched the gold chain she was wearing and fled the place with his wife around 10.30 a.m.
The police said onlookers heard Akshata’s call for rescue and chased the couple, who were caught near Surathkal junction. The two were handed over to police. Akshata is being treated at a private hospital and her condition is said to be stable.
The police said the couple had been searching for a job in Mangalore for last few days, after failing to get job in Goa. They were staying in a room of a lodge in Surathkal and had kept their two children locked in the room. They had ran short of money on Friday which pushed them to take up crime, the police said.
