Engineer arrested on chain-snatching charge

Bengaluru | Sunday | 15th July, 2018

Summary:

The police suspect that he may be involved in over 20 chain snatching incidents over the past six months. more-inPrabhakar, an engineer and former IT company employee who took to chain-snatching to repay loans, was caught by the police, after a hot pursuit on Friday. Six months ago, with creditors breathing down his neck, he decided to turn to chain snatching to pay his debts, the police said. Head constable Malappa and his colleague detained Prabhakar and took him to the hospital from where he was taken into custody for further investigations. Prabhakar, 40, from Andhra Pradesh, was living with his wife and two children in a rented house in Parappana Agrahara..