‘Nobody came to help’: Out to watch daughter’s play, woman fights off chain snatchers in Delhi CR Park

The man, who was walking beside the woman, stopped her. He then attempted to snatch her chain. The woman raised an alarm while trying to hold on to her chain. Some people gathered around even as nobody intervened. The scuffle between the man and the woman continued. Seeing the crowd, this suspect sat pillion on the bike and they both fled, said officers.

The husband of the woman told The Indian Express that she was going to watch their daughter perform in a play to the World Theatre Day at Bangla Samaj. “The scuffle between her andmark the snatcher lasted for over a minute. She screamed immediately, but everyone stood there watching. Even after I rushed down from the building after hearing her voice, and the snatchers fled, no one came to help us. She was lying there bleeding. It was very surprising,” said her husband. The family has been living in CR Park for nearly a decade.

DCP (South) Anant Mittal said, “The woman immediately went to a nearby hospital on her own, where she received treatment and was discharged shortly after. She later approached the police and lodged a complaint.”

The woman, her husband said, has got four stitches in her right arm, and is still traumatised. “It hits hours later the incident has happened. She is still in shock. We heard about snatching incidents rarely in this area, but a knife? I don’t remember anything like this happening,” he added.

Based on her statement, a case under sections 309(6)(aggravated robbery) and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered at CR Park police station.

The motorcycle used in the commission of the offence has been recovered.

“We have managed to zero in on the identity of one of the accused,” an officer said, adding that the CCTV footage is being further analysed.

Multiple teams have been formed to trace and apprehend the accused at the earliest, police said. Further investigation is in progress.