A 45-year-old woman journalist of a leading English daily claimed that she was robbed of her mobile phone on Thursday morning just 100 metres before the office of district's deputy commissioner of police (DCP) in central Delhi's Daryaganj area.
"I was sitting in an auto on Thursday morning and was going towards Connaught Place from Daryaganj for some work. I never take out my phone while I am in an auto-rickshaw or an e-rickshaw, but this morning it was an important message which I had to reply," she said in her complaint.
"A person came there at around 10.15 am and snatched my Samsung A-50 phone and started running. I left my bag in the auto and started chasing him. The accused manage to flee and disappeared near the lane next to the Daryaganj police station," the woman, a resident of Daryaganj, said.
Giving out the details of the accused in her complaint, she said, "I ran behind the snatcher, who was wearing a light brown T-shirt and a dark brown trouser...but before the Delhi gate red light the snatcher managed to flee."