Panchkula, April 25 -- A sessions court in Panchkula acquitted a youth, accused of a snatching a woman's purse on a train, on Tuesday. The court wasn't convinced with the police theory that the accused had hid the one-to-two-feet wide purse below his arm under his T-shirt.

The case was registered by the government railway police (GRP), Chandigarh, against the accused, Jitender Yadav, in April 2023. Paramjit Kaur, who was travelling in Pashchim Express from Mumbai to Jalandhar, had mentioned in her complaint that a young boy in a T-shirt and jeans snatched her cream-coloured purse and jumped off the train. As per the prosecution, policemen patrolling the railway station in Chandigarh received information that a boy was hiding a lady's pur...