Four snatching incidents in city in 24 hours

Tribune News Service 

Amritsar, February 17 

The city witnessed four snatching incidents in the past 24 hours in which foreign tourists and a restaurant owner was looted by unidentified miscreants. 

Sukhwinder Kaur, a businesswoman and a resident of Ludhiana, stated to the police that she used to export seeds and she along with her buyers Robit Persyn and Maria van pouche of Belgium had come to pay obeisance at Golden Temple. She said when they were going to the shrine on an e-rickshaw after parking their car in the parking, two motorcycle-borne youths snatched the purse of Maria. She was having a mobile phone, banking cards and foreign currency in the purse. The police have registered a case in this regard. 

In another incident, Satpal, a restaurant owner, was robbed by armed persons when he was returning home late in the night. He stated to the police on Wednesday night that when he reached near Gokul Avenue, armed motorcycle-borne youths looted Rs 85,000 besides a mobile phone from him. 

Similarly, an unidentified youth snatched a mobile phone from a local resident Ramji who was standing outside a barber shop. In another incident, unknown persons robbed cigarettes worth Rs 20,000 from a supplier, identified as Vinod Kumar.