Puducherry: Woman held for snatching gold chain
Puducherry, Aug 10 (UNI) Police arrested a woman on charges of snatching the gold chain of an old-aged woman at the temple festival here on Friday night.
Police said on Saturday, the sexagenarian woman Ponni (65) was attending a temple festival at Muthialpet when she felt that someone had snatched her chain in the crowd.
She immediately alerted the Muthialpet police who questioned a woman found to be in a suspicious circumstance.They later recovered the chain from the woman identified as Mathi (26) hailing from Coimbatore.
She was arrested, produced before a local court today and remanded to judicial custody.
Police are on the look out for her accomplices as they are sure that she belongs to a gang which landed in Puducherry.
During festival seasons, thieves also used to visit here as tourists by forming a gang and then they will spread to different areas to commit the crime, police said.
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