The 17-year-old son of a policeman has been caught along with a friend for snatching handbag of a woman travelling in an autorickshaw. The crime occurred on the Western Express Highway in Malad West on November 27, with a woman complaining that a pillion rider on a bike snatched her bag. The woman rushed to Bangur Nagar Police Station.

Meanwhile, a call was made to the patrolling van of Bangur Nagar Police station that two men on a bike had been held by a person who got suspicious spotting them with a handbag. When the man tried to question them, they started beating him up. A mob gathered to nab both boys, but one of them ran away.