Prime Minister's niece robbed of her purse with cash and mobile phones
New Delhi: Two motorcycle-borne outlaws snatched the purse of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s niece in the Civil Lines area of North Delhi.
The incident happened when Damayanti Ben Modi was getting out of an auto-rickshaw outside Gujrati Samaj Bhavan in the Civil Lines.
Damayanti Ben, who is the daughter of Prime Minister’s brother, had booked a room at Gujrati Samaj Bhavan.
She was returning from Amritsar today in the morning and was scheduled to leave for Ahmedabad in the evening.
The robbers snatched her purse, when she was alighting from the auto-rickshaw on her way back from Old Delhi Railway Station.
The Prime minister’s niece lodged an FIR in this connection at the Civil Lines Police Station.
According to the victim, her pursed had Rs 56,000 cash, two mobile phones and some important documents.
"A case of snatching has been filed. We are analysing the CCTV footage from the railway station to Civil Lines. The investigation is underway and we will soon arrest the accused,"DCP(North) Monica Bhardwaj was quoted as saying by NDTV.
Of late, several cases of snatching have been reported in different parts of the city.
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