Probe on into gang snatching phones from PG students at gun-point
TNN | Feb 15, 2020, 04.27 AM IST
Trichy: The city police are probing the incident in which five students of a private college were allegedly robbed of their expensive mobile phones by a gang which arrived in two cars around midnight on Thursday. The postgraduate students said they were heading to the room of one of their mates by car when the incident happened near the government circuit house.
Cantonment police launched an inquiry with the five students on Thursday night itself. Four of the students were staying in the college hostel while one was residing outside. All of them are natives of Kerala staying in Trichy for studies. The students said they were on their way to the room of one of the students near Sengulam colony around 2 am. As their car neared circuit house, six people arrived in two cars and intercepted them.
The students told the police that the gang snatched two high value mobile phones from them by pointing an airgun. The students claimed that the gang sprayed some liquid on their faces and fled in their cars. The police team recovered some of the pellets of the gun at the spot. With the students giving contradictory statements, city police commissioner V Varadharaju inquired with the students in the morning on Friday.
Later, the police managed to find the five students roaming near Trichy international airport around 11pm after parking their car on Wireless Road for nearly an hour, after which they left the airport. When asked why they visited the airport so late at night, some of them replied that they went there to see the flights.
Unwilling to buy the theory, the officials launched a probe into the incident suspecting the activities of the students. The officials were suspicious as to why the gang should target only those students by following them in cars to snatch mobile phones. The students were initially reluctant to file a complaint but agreed later in the evening. Police said they were likely to register a case in Cantonment police in the night.
TNN | Feb 15, 2020, 04.27 AM IST
Trichy: The city police are probing the incident in which five students of a private college were allegedly robbed of their expensive mobile phones by a gang which arrived in two cars around midnight on Thursday. The postgraduate students said they were heading to the room of one of their mates by car when the incident happened near the government circuit house.
Cantonment police launched an inquiry with the five students on Thursday night itself. Four of the students were staying in the college hostel while one was residing outside. All of them are natives of Kerala staying in Trichy for studies. The students said they were on their way to the room of one of the students near Sengulam colony around 2 am. As their car neared circuit house, six people arrived in two cars and intercepted them.
The students told the police that the gang snatched two high value mobile phones from them by pointing an airgun. The students claimed that the gang sprayed some liquid on their faces and fled in their cars. The police team recovered some of the pellets of the gun at the spot. With the students giving contradictory statements, city police commissioner V Varadharaju inquired with the students in the morning on Friday.
Later, the police managed to find the five students roaming near Trichy international airport around 11pm after parking their car on Wireless Road for nearly an hour, after which they left the airport. When asked why they visited the airport so late at night, some of them replied that they went there to see the flights.
Unwilling to buy the theory, the officials launched a probe into the incident suspecting the activities of the students. The officials were suspicious as to why the gang should target only those students by following them in cars to snatch mobile phones. The students were initially reluctant to file a complaint but agreed later in the evening. Police said they were likely to register a case in Cantonment police in the night.
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