India, Jan. 10 -- Police registered a case of attempted snatching after a man was caught on CCTV footage trying to snatch a chain from a 76-year-old woman inside a residential high-rise society apartment's lift.

The victim, Bharti Jani, lives with her family in a Greater Noida West high-rise under the jurisdiction of the Bisrakh police station.

"Late Thursday evening, when my neighbour, Jani, was returning to her flat on the 5th floor with her granddaughter after feeding stray animals, an unidentified man started following her from the market," said Pankaj Kumar, a neighbour.

Kumar added, "In the CCTV footage,which went viral on social media, the man wearing a helmet followed her till the apartment. He entered the society through a gat...