Brave girl catches phone snatcher in Punjab


Chandigarh, Aug 31 (IANS): Showing exemplary courage, a Class VIII girl student fought with a miscreant pillion rider in Punjab's Jalandhar City who tried to flee on a motorcycle after snatching her mobile phone, police said on Monday.

The accused, Avinash Kumar (22) has been taken into custody.

Despite receiving injuries in the assault by the snatcher, the 15-year-old girl, Kusum Kumari, did not let go of him until passersby came to her rescue.

The brazen assault that took place in Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar was recorded on a CCTV camera.

Kumari told the police that she was going home when the pillion rider tried to snatch her mobile phone.

"As the man tried to flee on his motorcycle after snatching my phone, I grabbed him by running behind the vehicle. He attacked me with a sharp-edged weapon but I managed to drag him from the two-wheeler," she said.

  

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