The incident, which happened at 8.45 pm at a bustling traffic light on Linking Road behind Mega Mall, comes just five days after the gang rape of a 22-year-old in a central Mumbai mill compound put the spotlight on the safety of women in the city.
As the women fended off the assailants, who were slapping and kicking them, a passing police patrolling party saw the incident and arrested two of the muggers while the third managed to get away.
Loveleen Harinderpal Singh Sasan, 23, whose screen name is Loveleen Kaur, was going to the Lokhandwala market in an autorickshaw with her friend Mimin Chaudhary, 24, a banking professional. When the auto was at the Patliputra Nagar signal, a man snatched Kaur's purse, causing her to fall out of the auto.
As the thief was running away, the two women raised an alarm and started chasing him. But when the women caught up with the snatcher near Vijay Vishal building, two of his accomplices joined him and started hitting the women. As Kaur and her friend were fighting the thieves, a crowd gathered, but nobody helped them.
"The three of them started slapping and kicking us," Kaur said in her statement to the police. "But I did not let them go. I had only Rs 1,200 in the purse, but the amount did not matter. I just did not want the accused to get away with this. There were about 15 people around us. But all of them were merely watching. Nobody came to help us."
When TOI contacted Kaur and her friend, they declined to comment for this report. Kaur plays Rano in the serial Kaisa Yeh Ishq Hai which is airing on Life Ok channel. She has acted Bade Ache lagte Hai and Anamika on Sony in the past.
"Our marshals saw that a crowd was holding up the traffic on the road," said Nasir Pathan, senior inspector, Oshiwara police.
"First they thought it was an accident. But when they went closer, they saw the two women fighting off three men and shouting 'Chor! Chor!' Their first instinct was to catch the three men, but one of them managed to slip away. We were surprised that the crowd was just watching. Luckily, our constables reached in time and nabbed the accused."
Filmmaker Ashok Pandit, who witnessed the incident and tried to fend off the thugs till the police arrived, said it was "ridiculous to see the crowd just standing and watching who will win the fight."
Pandit readily agreed to testify against the thieves and identified the accused for the police. "It was strange to see two girls fighting out with criminals and a crowd just standing and waiting to see who wins," said Pandit. "It was ridiculous. The girls were badly hurt and had bruises all over their faces. I immediately took them to the hospital."
The police have identified the accused as Sajid Shah,25,and Mohammad Moazzam Ali,22,both residents of Goregaon.
The police said the two took up menial jobs to make ends meet and admitted to robbing people in the past. They also confessed to using drugs. A court remanded the two to three days in police custody.
"We have arrested two of the accused and are looking for the third," said Nasir Pathan, senior inspector, Oshiwara police. "We will nab him soon."
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