| Woman holds back part of chain from snatcher by irmafia on 04 July, 2013 - 09:01 AM | ||
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 irmafia | Woman holds back part of chain from snatcher on 04 July, 2013 - 09:01 AM | |
A 33-year-old woman, travelling by the Chennai-Rameswaram Express made a valiant attempt to save her eleven-and-a-half sovereign gold chain when a miscreant tried to snatch it, but could save only a part.Railway police said R.Chithra Devi from Nemilicheri, near Chennai was on a pilgrimage to Rameswaram with 16 other family members, when the incident happened at Nellikuppam Railway station, near Villupuram, at the wee hours of Tuesday. She was sleeping on the side lower berth, keeping the window open when the train halted at Nellikuppam station at 1. 30 a.m. for operating reasons. It became all the more convenient for the miscreant to snatch her chain and flee, as the S8 coach, she was travelling in, was at the end of the platform, police said.Raising an alarm, she held on to the gold chain, but could retain only a part of it, which weighed around four-and-a-half sovereign, while the thief ran away with seven sovereigns, police said. Her family members, two women constables, travelling in the train and the Travelling Ticket Examiner rushed to her rescue, but it was too late as the train had started moving and the miscreant escaped under the cover of darkness. | ||