The Dombivli GRP have arrested a 27-year-old bag snatcher who led to 29-year-old Prajakta Gupta’s death on the railway track near Kalyan last week. mid-day had reported on August 1 on how she was run over while trying to chase the thief who snatched her purse when she was at Kalyan.

The accused, identified as Sameer Shaikh, was arrested on Thursday from his in-laws residence at Nashik. An officer from Dombivli GRP said, “The statements of the two women witnesses who appeared later at the police station proved pivotal, as they even narrated the walking style of the accused, on the basis of which we started looking for history sheeters involved in bag snatching.”