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Mangaluru: A woman from Ullal has been arrested for allegedly snatching a gold chain from a child's neck.
According to the police, the arrested is Minnath.
Mangaluru City Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy C H said Rahmat, a resident of Belma village in Ullal, had gone to Tokkottu with her children to buy clothes on June 2. As it was raining, she had stopped in front of a shop, where a woman in a burqa snatched a 10-gram gold chain from her daughter's neck. A case was registered by the Ullal police under Section 304(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Pursuing the case, the Ullal police took Minnath into custody and recovered the stolen chain.
During interrogation, she revealed that she had also stolen an 8-gram gold chain from a bag at a wedding event at a convention Hall at Pajir on July 9. A case was registered by the Konaje police under Section 303(2) of the BNS. The Commissioner said the chain was also confiscated from the arrested.
The arrested was presented in court, which remanded her in judicial custody. The value of the gold ornaments recovered from the arrested is estimated at Rs 1.8 lakh.