With the city’s residents earning a reputation for looking the other way, a 19-year-old college student has gone against the tide. Chandanwadi resident Abhishek Tiwari chased and caught a chain snatcher who targeted a 70-year-old woman in south Mumbai on Friday.

Brave act: Teenager Abhishek Tiwari (above) chased and caught Firoz Mohammad Shaikh (below, left) after he snatched a gold chain from a senior citizen’s neck in Marine Lines on Friday; Shaikh told cops that his employer Afaq Israr Khan (below, right) had asked him to carry out the robbery to pay off the loans he had taken to start a garment business. Pic/Bipin Kokate