"Under the pretext of asking for directions, a bike-borne man tried to snatch the chain my grandmother was wearing. Seeing this, 10-year-old Rutvi Ghag started hitting him in the face with a bag. The man then fled the spot as his attempt to snatch the chain was foiled," the complaint said.
Official said that the incident was reported on February 22 and the accused were allegedly inspired to commit the offence after watching videos on YouTube.
The incident that took place on Monday was caught on a nearby CCTV camera, visuals from which purportedly showed the accused snatching the woman's valuables at what appears to be gunpoint.
The accused was an accomplice of another Iranian migrant Kabuli Jafri, who was arrested by the property cell of Mumbai Police in September this year in connection with a series of chain snatching and cheating cases while posing as a crime branch officer in Mumbai, police said.
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