PUNE: Gold chains and valuables collectively valued at Rs 1.89 lakh belonging to four persons, including two women, were robbed at the Pune railway station, Sadhu Vaswani Chowk, Warje Malwadi and Khadki on July 14 and15.
Four FIRs relating to robbery were registered with the Khadki, Bund Garden and Warje Malwadi police stations.
In the first case, the Khadki police on Thursday night arrested Hambirrao Sukhale (28) from Chakan Road on the charge of snatching a gold chain of an eight-month-old baby girl who was being held by her grandmother at the vegetable market in Khadki Bazaar around 7.30pm.
Senior inspector Datta Chavan on Friday said,“Alert passersby chased and overpowered Sukhale after the grandmother raised an alarm. Sukhale is a criminal on record.”
In the second case, two men robbed a 38-year-old autorickshaw driver Atul Londhe from Bibvewadi of his cellphone worth Rs 6,000 while he was talking to his mother between Pune station and Alankar Chowk on Thursday around 11.15am.
In the third case, a transgender waved down 48-year-old Siraj Hashmi from Bhavani Peth who was riding on his bike and robbed him of his cellphone worth Rs 6,000 and cash of Rs 1,000 from his shirt pocket at Sadhu Vaswani Chowk on the night of June 14.
In the four case, a man riding a scooter snatched a gold chain worth Rs 1 lakh of a 47-year-old woman near Deep Jyoti Colony on Karve Road on Thursday night.
