THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Police have nabbed that cruel robber who approached a lone old woman at a desolate place under the pretext of asking her some address and snatched her gold chain.

The arrested person is Thiruvananthapuram Poojappura Chithra Nagar Lakshmi Vilasam resident Sajeev (28).

Recently a video of him robbing one Parvathy of her chain at Thirumala had gone viral. As soon as the police got the information at the control room, they found the bike number of the culprit from CCTVs visuals in that area and arrested him. All this happened within one hour.

On questioning him Sajeev confessed to the crime. He told the police that he used to steal gold chains like this, sold it and lend money for an ‘interest’.
He goes about on his bike wearing helmet. He will observe women who are alone in some isolated places, ask them unassumingly some address or direction of some place. After diverting their attention, he will snatch their chains and speed away on his bike.

In Parvathy’s case, the CCTV visual shows the woman falling down when she tries to retrieve her chain from Sajeev, who rides away unmindful of what is happening behind.