Mumbai: Wadala railway police nabs chain snatcher within 24 hours of theft on local train

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The Wadala railway police on Sunday solved a case of chain snatching within 24 hours and arrested the accused. On Saturday, the accused had jumped from a moving train at Chembur railway station after snatching the chain of a woman commuter, a police official said.

According to a report in Times of India, the incident took place on Saturday at around 5.10 pm when victim Anusha Kamraj (36), a college lecturer, boarded the CSMT-Panvel train to go home at Nerul.

"I boarded the train at around 4.45 pm from Rey Road. I was seated in the ladies compartment and when the train started moving from Chembur station, a man who was inside the handicap compartment that had common partition, snatched my chain by putting his hand through the gap and jumped off the moving train," Kamraj said.

The cops managed to track the accused Linton Abdul Shaikh (35) to a footpath near a vegetable market in Mankhurd's Lallubhai compound on Sunday afternoon. The stolen chain was recovered from his possession.