Chennai: CREW bus warning helps the police city of the Snatcher chain, which after committing a crime, taking the MTC bus to escape at Kilpuk on Thursday.
I was identified as Marimuthu, the defendant was found holding a machete and threatened the conductor when he asked him to buy a ticket.
It landed in trouble.
The police said that the defendant took a moving bus to Koyambedu from Broadway.
He entered the crowded bus by thinking no one would be able to track it.
When the conductor, Selvadurai, asked him to buy a ticket, Marimuthu threatened him by saying that he would not buy a ticket and he was never used to it.
Seeing the chain-snatcher holding on to the machete, passengers panicked asking the conductor not to argue with him.
The conductor saw weapons went near the driver and signaled that there would be a problem and asked him to drive the bus to the Kilparuk police station.
Snatcher doesn’t know until the bus reaches near the station.
The bus shutedseeing was placed near the police station, Marimuthu tried to escape.
However, bus passengers arrested him and handed them to the police.
The police found he had taken the chain of a woman near Muthialpet and took a bus to escape from being caught.
Marimuthu, the police said was a chain park, who had snatched the chain from the pedestrian and managed to escape from the crime scene.
Because he did not have a vehicle to escape, he made it into the bus thought that it was difficult for anyone to track it.
But he was arrested after threatening a conductor.
Marimuthu was involved in several other cases of crime in the region.
“We are at the end of the recipient of both students and passengers.
Both management and police are not concerned about our safety,” said R M Swamy, a conductor.