Snatchers target 50-year-old woman in South Delhi, escape with gold chain

Snatchers have targeted a 50-year-old woman travelling in an auto and halted the entire traffic movement on a road in South Delhi.

Koijam Kheleshori Devi, hailing from Manipur, who had come to Delhi to meet her son, was on her way to visit Saket mall in an autorickshaw on Saturday night. The snatchers blocked the traffic movement on the road pretending to be drunk when one of them snatched her gold chain and their accomplice, who was waiting on a motorcycle, drove them away.

Ms. Devi said that she had arrived in the city with her 16-year-old son to meet her elder son who is pursuing graduation from a DU college in South Delhi. She was at her son’s flat in Malviya Nagar when they made a plan to visit Saket mall.

“We were travelling in an autorickshaw when they got stuck in a jam at a red light near Saket mall. We saw a drunk man creating ruckus on the road. He had halted the entire traffic on the stretch. I was sitting on the right side and my sons were sitting next to me,” said Ms Devi.

A motorcycle stopped next to her and the pillion rider snatched her gold chain. By the time she could raise an alarm, the man who had caused the traffic jam hoped onto the moving motorcycle and fled with his two associates.

The police said that a case of snatching has been registered at the Malviya Nagar police station. “We are identifying the suspects with the help of CCTV footage,” said a police officer.