Bidari honors youths with Rs 20K inaam

Youths had foiled attempted chain snatching and manage to nab one gang member despite being stabbed

Youths had foiled attempted chain snatching and manage to nab one gang member despite being stabbed

City police chief Shankar Bidari on Sunday awarded a joint prize of Rs 20,000 to Anil Kumar (22) and Ananth (22) who chased a gang of chain snatchers and caught one.

Anil Kumar, a resident of Vidyaranyapura, was returning from the RTO with his friends Venkatesh and Ananth on Saturday after getting his bike registered.

The friends then witnessed a gang in an autorickshaw trying to snatch a gold chain from a woman.

Lauding the brave act, Bidari assured the youths that their medical expenses too would be paid for.

Anil, a graduate who works as a call center executive for Meru Cabs, heard the woman's cries for help and began chasing the autorickshaw on his bike while Ananth ran to chase one of the gang members who was fleeing on foot.

"We were chasing the auto for a while, when it took a sudden u-turn and rammed head on with our bike.

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Venkatesh and I fell from the bike and lost consciousness. The two men in the autorikshaw sped away," said Anil.

Meanwhile, the accused chased by Ananth scaled a wall and waited for him to follow before allegedly stabbing Ananth twice on his hand and shoulder.
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Though he was bleeding, Ananth managed to overpower him. "I don't know how to explain what I did or why. It was a sudden reaction on my part to chase the accused," Ananth told MiD DAY.

Lauding the brave act, Bidari assured that their medical expenses would be paid for and gave Anil and Ananth a cash prize of Rs 10,000 each. "We need such youth for the good of the society," Bidari said.

"The Vidyaranyapura police have taken the accused into custody and are grilling him about his accomplice. He seems like a professional.
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He has not revealed who his associates are," said a source in the Vidyaranyapura police. The officers at the Vidyaranyapura police station refused to comment on the case.