To celebrate his birthday, this engineer snatches a woman’s earrings
New Delhi, July 28: A 31-year-old junior engineer was arrested for allegedly snatching the gold earrings of a woman in Delhi's Mansarovar Park area and selling them to meet expenses for his birthday celebrations, police said on Tuesday.
The
accused,
Mohit
Gautam
alias
Love,
is
a
resident
of
Jyoti
Nagar
in
Shahdara,
they
said.
On
Friday,
a
case
was
registered
at
Mansarovar
Park
police
station
regarding
the
snatching
of
gold
earrings
of
a
woman
by
a
bike-borne
man.
During the investigation, police checked over 30 CCTV footages and prepared an escape route of the snatcher. In the footages, police developed some snapshots in which the snatcher was seen with a mask on his face, a senior police officer said, adding that there was no registration number on both the number plates of the vehicle.
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On Sunday, while keeping a watch at Jagatpuri wine shop, police intercepted a motorcycle of the same features with blank number plates and apprehended Gautam, the officer said.
During interrogation, Gautam disclosed that he is a junior engineer on a contract basis in the BSES. He said that he snatched the gold earrings of the woman to celebrate his birthday on Sunday as he was running out of money, they said.
Gautam said he had sold the earrings to a goldsmith, Surender, who is a resident of Ashok Nagar in Shahdara, police said. Surender is on run, they said.
(PTI)