PUNE: The local crime branch of the Pune Rural police on Saturday arrested a 23-year-old criminal on the police records for robbing people of their cellphone and valuables near Koregaon-Bhima along the Pune-Ahmednagar highway.
The police team led by senior Padmakar Ghanwat detected five recent robberies from the suspect Fida Hussain Irani of Shivajinagar, Pune.
“The suspect Irani has 31 of chain and mobile snatching registered against him in Maharashtra, Goa and Telangana states,” Ghanwat told TOI.
On May 24, the suspect Irani had pushed one person walking along the road at Koregaon-Bhima and had snatched his two cellphones.
“While probing the case, we got the tip-off that the suspect Irani from Shivajinagar in Pune was involved in recent robberies near Koregaon-Bhima,” Ghanwat said.
He said that the police team nabbed Irani after a brief chase in Koregaon-Bhima.
“We have recovered two cellphones and a scooter from him,” Ghanwat said.
During the questioning Irani admitted his involvement in five recent robberies.
“In the last he had snatched a smartphone of a pedestrian by alleging that the latter had clicked photographs of women,” Ghanwat said.
Ghanwat said that Irani has 18 cases of chain and mobile snatching registered against him with the Pune city police, 11 cases in Hyderabad in Telangana and two with the Goa police.