New Delhi: A chain-snatching shook up India’s capital city on Monday. Firstly, a Lok Sabha MP was the victim, and it happened in the high-security Chanakyapuri area.
R Sudha, a Congress MP from Tamil Nadu, was out for a morning walk near the Poland Embassy around 6.15 am when an unidentified man on a two-wheeler snatched her gold chain. Sudha sustained injuries to her neck in the attack, and more significantly, was left “highly traumatised.”
The MP wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah narrating her ordeal.
“A man wearing a full helmet and riding a Scooty approached us from the opposite direction and snatched my gold chain and fled. As he pulled the chain from my neck, I have suffered injuries on my neck, and my churidhar also got torn in the impact,” Sudha wrote in her letter to Shah.
Sudha mentioned that she was walking with a companion when the attacker struck. She was caught off guard as the rider was moving slowly and did not appear suspicious.
“I somehow managed not to fall, and both of us cried for help,” stated Sudha, who has been staying at Delhi’s Tamil Nadu House for the past year.
, said she was left stunned because the robbery took place in the diplomatic enclave, which has heightened security round the clock.
“This blatant attack on a woman, who is a Member of Parliament, in a high-security zone like Chanakyapuri which is full of embassies and protected institutions, is highly shocking to say the least.. If a woman cannot walk safely in this high-priority zone in the national capital of India, where else can we feel safe?” she highlighted in the letter.
The Congress MP urged the Home Minister to ensure that the culprit is arrested swiftly.
“Sir, I have suffered injury on my neck, lost my gold chain weighing more than four sovereigns, and I am highly traumatised by this criminal attack,” she wrote.
Police have registered a case, and an investigation is underway.
CCTV footage from the vicinity is being examined to trace the accused.
Security has been beefed up around Tamil Nadu House and surrounding areas following the incident.
