Hyderabad, June 20 -- A 21-year-old man who allegedly entered a cosmetic shop posing as a customer and snatched a woman's gold mangalsutra was caught by alert locals and handed over to the police in Uppal on Thursday, June 18.

The incident occurred at a cosmetic shop in Hanuman Sai Nagar under the Uppal police station limits.

The victim, Kasula Sandhya (35), a resident of Venkata Reddy Nagar in Ramanthapur, works at the cosmetic shop. According to police, at around 12.50 pm on Thursday, a young man entered the shop pretending to be a customer and enquired about the price of a face wash.

When Sandhya turned around to show him the product, the accused allegedly snatched her gold mangalsutra, weighing around 37 grams, from her neck and fl...