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Chain snatcher handed over to police

Staff Correspondent

DAVANGERE: A man, who allegedly robbed a gold chain from a woman, was caught by four youths at Shamanur, on the outskirts of Davangere, on Friday evening. The accused has been identified as Beeresh (40).

The Superintendent of Police, Alok Kumar, said the victim, Suvarna, was stopped by a stranger on a street. The person, on the pretext of enquiring the route to a place, snatched her gold chain and ran away. Ms. Suvarna raised an alarm that prompted four youths to chase the culprit.

However, the offender hid himself in a sugarcane field. The youth surrounded the sugarcane fields and managed to catch him after an one-hour search. They handed him over to the police, who recovered the gold chain from him and produced him before court.

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