New Delhi:
Delhi police released dramatic footage of a man with a gun fleeing after snatching the gold chain from a woman on Friday afternoon.
According to the police, the defendant is one of the two men involved in the crime and remains unidentified.
Police have brought a loot case and started searching for the defendant based on CCTV footage recovered from security cameras in the East Delhi neighborhood.
Caught on camera: man with gun snatches gold chain from woman in Delhi https://t.co/TsktCVbAc6pic.twitter.com/VZ2wOTYrcd
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According to the police, the crime occurred on Friday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. when the woman, identified only by her first name Laxmi, was returning from a wedding ceremony.
According to the sequence of events revealed in CCTV footage, the two men on bicycles parked their vehicle, one of them approached the woman, snatched the gold chain from her and ran away before she could react, police said.
The footage shows the man fleeing with a gun in one hand and a helmet in the other as passersby watched.
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