The Coimbatore City Police on Thursday arrested a member of a Maharashtra-based gang that was involved in serial chain snatchings in Coimbatore, Dharmapuri and other States.
The police said members of the gang followed a unique modus operandi of travelling to different places on trains and using stolen motorcycles to snatch chains of random women.
Hussain Ali Sheik, a native of Guntakal in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, was arrested from a place near Saravanampatti in Coimbatore on Thursday. The police claimed that he met with an accident while attempting to escape on a stolen two-wheeler. He was admitted to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital with a broken right leg and right hand.
