Two chain snatchers arrested

Coimbatore: The city police arrested two chain snatchers on Tuesday and recovered from them two gold chains weighing 11.5 sovereigns. On Monday, the duo, identified as 23-year-old R Santhosh, of Ariyalur, and 20-year-old S Vignesh, of Perambalur, had snatched two gold chains from as many women from Sundapalayam-Vedapatti road and TV Samy Road (west) at RS Puram.
A police officer said the two were construction workers. “Around 8.45am on Monday, they followed 40-year-old Srija, wife of Venugopal from PN Pudur, on their bike while she was travelling on her scooter to her office at RS Puram. She was on her way to the office on a scooter. When she neared Arun Enclave apartment on TV Samy Road (west), they snatched her gold chain weighing 5.5 sovereigns and sped away.” Based on Srija’s complaint, the RS Puram police registered a case.
The two, the officer said, then followed N Vincent Ravikumar, 57 and his wife V Nirmala, 53, from Kalikkanaickenpalayam and pushed the couple down from their motorcycle on Sundapalayam – Vedapatti road around 10.45am and made away with Nirmala’s mangalsutra. The couple lodged a complaint with the Vadavalli police.
The RS Puram police, meanwhile, collected CCTV footage from the crime scene and traced the two with the help of the registration number of their motorcycle. “They were under the influence of alcohol. We arrested them on Tuesday,” the officer said.tnn