Two from Andhra Pradesh held for stealing cash

Two persons, including a pistillate from Andhra Pradesh, were arrested for allegedly stealing a woman’s purse by slashing her handbag with a leaf successful Ranganathan thoroughfare successful T. Nagar.

According to the police, Gayathri, 30, of Velachery, had gone to Ranganathan Street successful T. Nagar connected the nighttime of May 11, on with her girl and a comparative to acquisition clothes. While walking done the crowded street, a antheral and a pistillate allegedly brushed past her.

Later, erstwhile Gayathri opened her handbag astatine a adjacent shop, she recovered that the broadside of the container had been slit with a leaf and the purse containing ₹6,000 had been stolen. Suspecting the 2 persons who had crossed her successful the crowd, she lodged a ailment with the Mambalam Police Station Crime Wing seeking enactment against them and betterment of the stolen money.

The Mambalam Police, connected probe arrested the suspects who person been identified arsenic Gunja Kittanna, 45, from Kurnool, and Vani, 20, from Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh.

Investigations further revealed that Gunja Kittanna already had respective transgression cases pending against him successful Andhra Pradesh, including 3 theft cases.