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Mumbaikars, hold on to your handbags, the pole-snatchers are back

Govandi resident almost falls off train as she loses her bag to the robbers on track between Bandra-Mahim; then faces a nightmare while lodging a complaint

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Bharti Shewale managed to lodge a complaint against her attacker only after an hour-and-a-half of running around between stations. Pic/Sameer Markande
Bharti Shewale managed to lodge a complaint against her attacker only after an hour-and-a-half of running around between stations. Pic/Sameer Markande

The trains, they just keep getting increasingly unsafe for women. A day after a woman was pushed in front of a train by a chain snatcher, another incident of a woman almost falling off from her perch on the footboard as a pole snatcher between Mahim-Bandra attempted to steal her handbag has just come to light.

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