Chennai police kill snatcher from Maharashtra gang | India News

CHENNAI: Police on Wednesday shot certainly one of two chain-snatchers that they had arrested from Chennai airport on Tuesday in a dramatic vogue, pulling one off a airplane about to go away for Hyderabad and selecting up the opposite from a queue to board a flight to Mumbai.
Chennai metropolis police commissioner A Arun stated Jaffer Gulam Hussain Irani, 28, was shot useless when he pulled out a gun from the bike used for the snatchings after police took him to get well the car, parked at an remoted spot beneath an MRTS pillar at Taramani, early on Wednesday. Irani was a top-ranking member of the Irani gang from Maharashtra’s Thane. He and Meesan Amjith Irani, 23, had flown in from Mumbai early on Tuesday, picked up a motorcycle from an confederate and between 6am and 7am snatched chains of six aged girls who had been out on morning stroll at Saidapet, Adyar and Guindy, not far from the airport.
Commissioner Arun stated Jaffer Gulam and Meesan Amjith hid their bike and took a cab to the airport. On the best way they modified their garments, however not their footwear. “We identified them (from the CCTV footage) because they did not change their shoes,” stated Arun.
Their confederate, Salman Hussain, 25, of MP’s Barwani, was nabbed at Ongole railway station in Andhra after he fled Chennai on Pinakini Express.
The commissioner stated a police crew took Hussein Irani to get well the bike bearing Karnataka quantity plaste. He pulled out a country-made pistol hidden beneath the bike cowl and fired twice. “In self-defence, the inspector shot him ,” he added.