3 mobile phone snatchers held

Chandigarh, February 21

The police have arrested three members of a gang of mobile phone snatchers and recovered two cell phones, an airgun and a motorcycle used in the crime here on Sunday. The suspects have been identified as Bhagsi village residents Jatin and Sunil Kumar and Bhukhdi resident Akshay Kumar. In his complaint to the police on Saturday, Dera Bassi resident Pal Chand stated that three bike-borne youths attacked and snatched his phone near Grain Market around 9 pm. The police traced the suspects from the tower location of the phone and CCTV footage and nabbed the suspects on Sunday. The suspects were produced in a court, which sent them to three-day police remand. Dera Bassi SHO Satinder Singh said more cases of snatching were likely to be solved during their interrogation. TNS