Chandigarh, Aug. 6 -- A 30-year-old BCA graduate and former HR executive of a multinational company in Mohali, was arrested for his involvement in over a dozen snatching incidents across the UT, Mohali, and Panchkula. The accused, identified as Abhishek Ojha, a native of Agra residing in Panchkula's Sector 7, had allegedly turned to crime after watching YouTube videos on snatchings. His associate, Ashok Kumar, 28, a courier company employee who received and hid the stolen jewellery in Agra, has also been arrested. Ojha was arrested on August 1 by a team of the Sector 31 police station. Cops recovered five gold chains, a gold mangalsutra, and two gold pendants, apart from the motorcycle and weapon used in the crime, from the accused. According to police, Ojha was obsessed with online games and crime videos. In one of his online searches, he came across clips showing how to snatch jewellery in residential areas. What began as curiosity soon turned into crime. He committed three snatching offences in Agra before relocating to the Tricity in March 2025 and taking up a job in Mohali. Within a few months, he turned into a serial offender, targeting women across Sectors 31, 34, 36, 39, 19 in Chandigarh, as well as Mohali and Panchkula. To evade detection, he used a Bajaj Pulsar N-250 motorcycle with its number plate removed. A team was formed to nab him after a snatching incident on July 23, where a woman named Preeti, a resident of Sector 31, was robbed of her mangalsutra near the AFFWA Complex. Ojha has three cases registered against him at Agra and Kumar, an MSc graduate and an employee at a courier company....