NEW DELHI: Police nabbed a 38-year-old man who was found to be involved in more than 100 cases of snatching. The accused, Manish Kumar, was arrested on Saturday along with his associate, Manoj Kumar Misra (28).
The duo was nabbed by a team of special staff of south Delhi police and during interrogation, police found that Kumar has 109 cases registered against him and 100 of them are related to snatching incidents.
DCP (south) Vijay Kumar said that one country-made pistol with three live cartridges, one mobile phone that was snatched and a motorcycle used in the commission of crime have been seized.
Police said that the arrested duo had executed over 50 snatchings in South, South-East, Central, North, North-East, East, Shahdara, Outer, and Rohini police districts in the last few months.
The looted gold jewellery, worth approximately Rs 10 lakh, was being mortgaged at a private gold financing company in east Delhi's Mandawali village.