UP: Purse snatchers caught as their bike runs out of petrol

AGRA: Two youths who snatched the purse of a government school teacher in Hathras and fled on a motorcycle did not expect their bike to stall some distance away from the crime spot as it ran out of petrol. What they also did not know was that they were being followed. When they stopped to refuel at a petrol pump, they were nabbed by the public.
According to police, two bike-borne youths snatched the purse of a primary school teacher in Barsai village, Kiran Verma, when she alighted from an auto-rickshaw near her school around 10 am on Monday, and fled.

The principal of Vidyapeeth Inter College Arun Kaushik, whose vehicle happened to be behind the auto rickshaw witnessed the snatching. He decided to follow to bikers, saw them stop at a petrol pump to refuel and raised an alarm. A crowd gathered and before the youths could flee, nabbed them.

Talking with mediaperson, Kaushik said, “I quietly followed the duo on a Apache bike which did not have a number plate. After they were nabbed, they were handed over to police.” The entire drama was captured on CCTV cameras. In the CCTV footage, Kaushik and other staff members of the petrol pump can be seen overpowering the suspects and beating them up. A countrymade pistol was also seized from their possession.

Talking with TOI, SP, Hathras, Jaiprakash Yadav said both accused have been sent to judicial custody.

He said that they were involved in looting a petrol pump in Sadabad area just two days ago.