Chandigarh | PGIMER employee’s phone snatched near OPD

Chandigarh police have registered a case against unidentified bike-borne miscreants, who snatched the employee’s phone near the PGIMER’s out-patient department gate number 2

A Nayagaon resident’s phone was snatched near the PGIMER’s out-patient department gate number 2 late on Monday night.

A PGIMER, Chandigarh, employee’s phone snatched near OPD (HT File)

Police said the victim, Sumit Verma of Suraj Complex, Nayagaon, who works at PGIMER was leaving at the end of his shift on his bicycle. He was stopped by two unidentified bike-borne miscreants on the Sector 11/12 dividing road near gate number 2 of, where they snatched his phone and fled.

Police have registered a case under Sections 379A (snatching) and 34 (acts done by several in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code at the Sector 11 police station.

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