Bhubaneswar: A retired woman teacher was injured after bike-borne chain snatchers attacked her at Adhalia near Balianta here on Thursday afternoon.
The victim was identified as 62-year-old Puspabati Mohapatra, a former teacher of a government school.
Puspabati was walking back to her home at Adhalia when the miscreants accosted her. They told her to take a shortcut, but she refused. At this one of the miscreants got down from the bike, snatched the woman’s gold chain, shoved her down on the road and then fled wit
h his aide. The woman sustained a deep cut on her head after she fell down.
All this was captured on a CCTV installed in a home in the neighbourhood. According to the footage, some passers-by later rescued the bleeding woman. They took her to a hospital, where a doctor stitched the wound on her head.
The victim’s son Satyajit Mohapatra said, “My mother had undergone a knee replacement surgery about two years ago. The doctors had advised her to walk for some time every day. On Thursday, she had got down from a bus and decided to walk to our home when she was attacked.”
Satyajit said they gave the registration number of the bike to police, who found that it was a stolen vehicle.
Police said they have launched a manhunt for the miscreants.