PUNE: The Wakad police recently arrested a 20-year-old food delivery person on the charge of chain snatching. The police have recovered 121gm of gold ornaments and a scooter from his possession.
“The suspect — Saurabh Yadav of Nigdi — had recently got married. The money he earned as a food delivery person wasn’t enough to make merry with his wife. Thus, he started snatching gold chains,” inspector Abhijit Jadhav of the Wakad police said.
Since February this year, he had snatched seven gold chains. A Wakad police team led by senior inspector Vivek Mugalikar along with assistant inspectors Abhijit Jadhav and Santosh Patil took Yadav into custody.
Jadhav said, “Our team was patrolling in the Wakad area when police constables Nitin Gengje and Vijay Gambhire noticed a man on a scooter roaming suspiciously. So we took him into custody.”
During the questioning, the suspect admitted to snatching gold chains from seven spots in Wakad, Chinchwad and Nigdi areas. “Yadav revealed that he watched several videos of chain snatching on a video sharing website and then started snatching gold chains,” Jadhav added.
