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Chandigarh: Woman among two sentenced in 2022 snatching case
Man sentenced to 7 years in jail, while the woman was given 5-year imprisonment by a local court in Chandigarh
A local court has sentenced two persons, including a woman, to seven and five years jail for snatching a woman’s mobile phone in December, 2022.
The convicts are Rohit, 23, of Sector 52, Chandigarh, and Swati, 25, of Dadu Majra Colony, Chandigarh.
The court sentenced Rohit to 7 years in jail and Swati to five-year imprisonment under section 379 A (snatching). A fine of ₹25,000 each has also been imposed on them.
On December 4, 2022, police received a wireless message that a snatching incident had taken place at light point of Sectors 43/44, near Motor Market, Sector-43, Chandigarh. The duo had snatched a mobile phone from the complainant, Sunita, who is from Mohali and works as a patient caretaker in a house in sector-43, Chandigarh.
She said that when she was going home from work while talking to his family on phone when the snatchers came on a two-wheeler. They stopped the vehicle at a distance and one of them snatched her phone and fled.
They were arrested during a check point laid by the police. The snatched mobile phone was recovered from their possession.
