India, Jan. 14 -- A 50-year-old woman, posted as an under secretary in the Union Ministry of micro, small & medium enterprises (MSME), became a victim of the "thak-thak" gang when an unidentified bike-borne man knocked on the window glass of her car she was travelling in and then snatched her purse containing her official ID card, mobile phone, a debit card and credit card in southwest Delhi's Dwarka on Sunday evening, said police on Tuesday.

According to the first information report (FIR), a copy of which is with HT, the incident happened around 7.30 pm. The woman was travelling in a car with her husband and son on the Dabri-Dwarka Road, when a man riding a motorcycle knocked on the window glass and signalled that something had happened...