Bike-borne men snatch Maldivian student’s mobile phone in Delhi: Police

Two men on a bike snatched the mobile phone of a woman inside an auto rickshaw in Delhi's Kashmiri Gate area; police have registered a case and started an investigation.

Two bike-borne men allegedly snatched the mobile phone of a woman while she was inside an auto rickshaw in north Delhi’s Kashmiri Gate area, police said on Thursday.

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Sagar Singh Kalsi, deputy commissioner of police (North), said that according to the woman, a Maldivian resident studying at Delhi’s St Stephen’s College, the snatching incident took place around 10:45am on Tuesday when she was on her way to the college guest house in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj.

The woman has been identified as Hawwa Sinma.

“When the auto-rickshaw she was travelling in reached near Hanuman Mandir in Kashmere Gate, two persons came from behind on a bike and snatched her mobile phone and fled,” the DCP said.’

On the complaint of Sinma, a case of assault and theft has been registered at Kashmere Gate police station and an investigation has been initiated, said the DCP.