Hyderabad, March 29 -- The Humayun nagar police have arrested a gold chain snatcher and recovered three gold chains weighing 3.5 tolas from his possession. The accused, identified as Laxman Rathod, 31, a resident of Mangar Basthi, Habeebnagar, was caught while attempting to sell the stolen ornaments in Vijayanagar Colony.

According to the police, on March 27 at around 9:00 pm, Mummidi Mohan Reddy, a resident of Nalgonda District, lodged a complaint after realizing that his gold chain was stolen while he was traveling by bus.

Reddy had come to Hyderabad on March 26 to attend a relative's funeral. On March 27, while alighting from a Metro Deluxe bus at Mehdipatnam, he was inconvenienced by unknown persons, and upon getting down, he notice...