A woman heading to her workplace lost her phone to a snatcher in Panchkula’s Sector 15 on Friday.
The victim’s brother, Praveen Kumar, a resident of Sector-15, Panchkula, who is the complainant in the case, said his elder sister is employed at Raghunath Charitable Trust Clinic as a dentist. She was on her way to work around 4 pm when an unidentified biker snatched the mobile phone from her hand near the intersection and sped away.
Assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Pradeep Kumar, along with Home Guard Rajesh Kumar, reached the crime scene promptly after receiving the complaint.
Preliminary investigation indicates that the phone was snatched near the T-point leading to Sector-16.
A case under Section 304 (snatching) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has been registered at Sector 14 police station.