3 days on, Amritsar cops but to arrest snatchers
Amritsar, February 7
The police have launched a manhunt to determine and nab the suspects who snatched the purse from a feminine vacationer whereas she, alongside together with her good friend, was returning to Amritsar after watching the Beating the Retreat ceremony on the Attari-Wagah joint check-post.
A number of individuals detained
The police have detained a number of individuals for questioning. CCTV cameras of the realm are additionally being scanned to get any clue in regards to the suspects. We’ll go away no stone unturned to arrest the suspects. Swapan Sharma, Amritsar Rural police chief
The sufferer recognized as Ganga Maya (28) of Gangtok, Sikkim, fell from an auto-rickshaw and succumbed to her accidents. The incident introduced a nasty identify to the holy metropolis, which is among the many main vacationer and spiritual locations and witnesses most footfall of vacationers not solely from the nation however from overseas shores additionally.
Even after three days, the police are nonetheless clueless in regards to the miscreants. The police have detained a number of individuals for questioning.
Amritsar Rural police chief Swapan Sharma mentioned the police had detained a number of individuals for questioning. CCTV cameras of the realm had been additionally being scanned to get any clue in regards to the suspects. “We’ll go away no stone unturned to arrest the suspects,” he mentioned.
Ganga Maya, alongside together with her good friend Atul Kumar of Agra, had come to go to the holy metropolis. The duo had gone to witness the Beating the Retreat Ceremony on the Attari-Wagah joint check-post.
Atul instructed the police that whereas they had been returning to Amritsar from Attari on an auto-rickshaw, two motorcycle-borne individuals got here from behind and tried to grab her purse. Whereas resisting the snatchers, she misplaced her steadiness and fell on the street from the auto-rickshaw. She suffered critical head accidents. The sufferer was taken to a personal hospital from the place she was referred to Amritsar hospital. Medical doctors declared her lifeless on arrival on the Amritsar hospital.
Sarabjit Singh Verka, a lawyer and human rights activist, identified {that a} majority of the snatching instances go unreported within the holy metropolis. The precise determine of snatchings is far increased than the FIRs registered with the police.
“Really folks have misplaced religion in law-enforcing companies. In many of the instances, they add incidents to the already present FIRs so as to ‘lower’ crime price within the metropolis,” Verka mentioned.
The case
Atul Kumar instructed the police that whereas they had been returning to Amritsar from Attari on an auto-rickshaw, two motorcycle-borne individuals got here from behind and tried to grab her purse. Whereas resisting the snatchers, she misplaced her steadiness and fell on the street from the auto-rickshaw. She suffered critical head accidents. The sufferer was taken to a personal hospital from the place she was referred to Amritsar hospital. Medical doctors declared her lifeless on arrival on the Amritsar hospital.