Advertisement
Pune: A 10-year-old girl put up strong resistance and foiled a bike-borne man’s attempt to snatch her grandmother’s chain in a street in Pune. According to the police complaint, the incident took place in Pune city last February 25, when a 60-year-old elderly woman Lata Ghag was going home with her granddaughter Rutavi Ghag in the Model Colony area of the city.
The matter came to light after security camera footage of the incident was circulated on news websites and social media platforms. In the video, the man can be seen pretending to ask for directions. He could soon be seen trying to snatch the chain of the grandmother, however, the 10-year-old girl bravely fights him off by hitting him with a bag after which he flees the scene.
After the video came to light, Pune police reached out to the victim and registered a case against an unknown person under section 393 of the Indian Penal Code in Shivaji Nagar police Station on March 9, an official said. Rutvi is a fourth standard student of Hujurpaga Girls High School in Pune. Her father Nitin Ghag owns an automobile repair garage.
When the incident took place, Rutvi was on her way to her aunt’s home with her grandmother and younger sister Dnyaneshwari (6).”Under the pretext of asking for directions, a bike-borne man tried to snatch the chain my grandmother was wearing. Seeing this, 10-year-old Rutvi Ghag started hitting him in the face with a bag. The man then fled the spot as his attempt to snatch the chain was foiled,” the complaint said.
