Ahmedabad (IANS). The Gujarat Police has arrested a person who snatched the iPhone of Diptiben Chowdhary, wife of KhedBrahmin Congress MLA Dr. Tushar Chowdhary.
According to the report, this incident is being told on the evening of 23 June. The MLA’s wife was on an evening walk when an unidentified bike-borne person snatched her iPhone. Whose cost was Rs 60,000.
MLA Tushar Chowdhary informed the city police commissioner about the matter. After this, the police took immediate action and arrested 27-year-old Saurabh Vijaybhai Mundhra. Saurabh is a resident of Saroli. The police have also recovered the bike used in the crime and the stolen iPhone from the accused.
The victim, Dr Deepti Chowdhary, works as a physiotherapist at SMIMER hospital run by the Surat Municipal Corporation.
According to the accused, Saurabh, a commerce graduate from MS University and belonging to the Maheshwari community, committed the crime out of greed for money to feed his alcohol addiction.
He claimed that this was his first snatching incident and he was unaware of the victim’s identity as the wife of a sitting MLA. The CCTV footage played a vital role in identifying and apprehending the suspect. The accused earlier worked as a food delivery agent.
