<p>A vigilant traffic constable caught a 23-year-old robber who raced away with the cash bag of an Andhra-based businessman on the busy NR Road in Kalasipalya on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police constable Prashanth, attached to the VV Puram traffic police station, was on duty at NR Circle when a car stopped and a man got down with a bag. A man who followed him dropped a ward of currency notes and asked the bag holder to pick it up.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bag holder, a businessman, checked to ensure that the money had not fallen from his pocket. The suspect — working in tandem with the man who dropped the notes — used that occasion to snatch the bag from the businessman's hand and tried to escape. The businessman held on to the bag and shouted for help. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Constable Prashanth, deputed nearby, chased the thief, who was sprinting away and pinned him down. The accused was later handed over to the jurisdictional Kalasipalaya police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Senior police officials lauded the constable for his alertness.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police have identified the suspect as Suresh, a native of Chennai, while his associate managed to escape. Both of them belonged to a gang from Tamil Nadu, which committed attention diversion thefts in the city, the police said.</p>
<p>A vigilant traffic constable caught a 23-year-old robber who raced away with the cash bag of an Andhra-based businessman on the busy NR Road in Kalasipalya on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police constable Prashanth, attached to the VV Puram traffic police station, was on duty at NR Circle when a car stopped and a man got down with a bag. A man who followed him dropped a ward of currency notes and asked the bag holder to pick it up.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bag holder, a businessman, checked to ensure that the money had not fallen from his pocket. The suspect — working in tandem with the man who dropped the notes — used that occasion to snatch the bag from the businessman's hand and tried to escape. The businessman held on to the bag and shouted for help. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Constable Prashanth, deputed nearby, chased the thief, who was sprinting away and pinned him down. The accused was later handed over to the jurisdictional Kalasipalaya police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Senior police officials lauded the constable for his alertness.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police have identified the suspect as Suresh, a native of Chennai, while his associate managed to escape. Both of them belonged to a gang from Tamil Nadu, which committed attention diversion thefts in the city, the police said.</p>