Three women held for theft

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The cantonment police arrested three migrant women on the charge of lifting a gold necklace of a bus passenger. They identified the suspects as Singari, 20; Manishwari, 18; and Pechi, 30, all residents of a Railway Poramboke colony in Coimbatore. The police said other bus passengers had caught the women and handed them over to the police when a woman passenger complained that they had snatched her necklace on the crowded bus. The police said they recovered the chain from the suspects. The accused were produced before the court and remanded in judicial custody.