A neighborhood court docket has sentenced a 28-year-old man to 5 years in jail for snatching a lady’s purse close to the Sector 11/15 roundabout in 2019.

The court docket of periods decide Deepak Gupta additionally imposed a positive of 25,000 on the convict, Parkash Singh, a resident of Dera Bassi.

According to case recordsdata, Singh had snatched the purse of a lady, Sheela Sharma, a resident of Sector 10, whereas she was returning dwelling from workplace on June 20, 2019, and fled on a bike.

The purse contained 6,000 in money, a Samsung cell phone and gold jewelry, amongst different valuables.

A snatching case was registered on the Sector-5 police station and Singh was later arrested for the crime by the detective employees of Panchkula police.

On Wednesday, the court docket discovered him responsible below Sections 379-A (2) (snatching) and 34 (acts finished in furtherance of widespread intention) of the Indian Penal Code, and sentenced him to five-year jail.