Coimbatore: Deadly phone snatchers still at large

COIMBATORE: The rural police are collecting CCTV footage from commercial establishments to trace the three mobile phone snatchers, who murdered a college student for refusing to hand over his phone in Sulur on Saturday night.
“Six special teams are working round-the-clock to crack the case. We hope to solve it within two days,” said a police officer. “The teams collected some surveillance footage and also verified registration plates of some motorcycles. The registration number plates were fake, and the footage were not clear enough to identify the faces of the motorcycle riders and pillion riders.”
Meanwhile, people caught a 20-year-old man red-handed while he attempted to snatch a mobile phone from a man at Kovilpalayam police limit on Monday evening. Two of his accomplices managed to escape. Police are grilling the youth to verify his involvement in the Sulur incident.
A three-member gang had stabbed D Tamilselvan, 20, of Nadu Arasur to death when he refused to hand over his mobile phone on Saturday night. He was a third year Mechanical Engineering student in a private college.
Ten minutes later, the same gang snatched the phone of 25-year-old K Mahalingam of Arasur and stabbed him using a knife. They escaped in his motorcycle. They abandoned the two-wheeler a kilometre away from the crime scene, after Mahalingam, with the help of a motorist, chased them.