Overview
- Police identified the suspect as Sunil Meena, 22, a private nursing college student in Bhopal, and said he was detained near Bagh Sewania before being arrested.
- Investigators said he confessed to the theft; officers charged a jeweller who purchased the mangalsutra and recovered the ornament, according to local reports.
- The January 25 incident inside a lift near the Blood Bank was captured on CCTV, showing the assailant push the woman and run toward the stairs with no guard in sight.
- The victim, an attendant in the gynaecology department identified in reports as Varsha (Rajshree) Soni, filed a complaint as police examined campus footage and traced an exit route through the IPD gate.
- AIIMS Bhopal reviewed security and ordered round-the-clock surveillance, as coverage linked the case to a wider rise in snatching offences after changes under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.