New Delhi Dec 17 PTI A hospital staffer was injured after she was dragged along a road by a scooter when she caught hold of a man who snatched her mobile phone at a traffic signal here police said on FridayThough the snatchers escaped at that moment police after examining CCTV camera footage identified and apprehended one of them a senior officer saidThe accused has been identified as Vipin 21 a resident of Gurmandi in Model Town police saidVipin was riding pillion and it was his jacket that the woman had grabbed and was dragged around 100 metres before she fell near a car they saidThe incident took place around 530 pm on Thursday in northwest Delhis Shalimar Bagh area when Payal a 23-year-old front office assistant at Fortis Hospital was returning home from work police saidBystanders took her to the hospital where she was treated for injuries to her knees She was discharged on Thursday they saidInformation about the snatching was received by the Shalimar Bagh Police Station around 640 pm on Thursday and teams were formed to apprehend the suspects they saidDeputy Commissioner of Police northwest Usha Rangnani said the man driving the scooter has also been identified and police teams are searching for himDuring interrogation Vipin said that after stealing the scooter from Kamla Nagar he and his associate reached Shalimar Bagh where they snatched the mobile phone of the woman who was waiting at the traffic signal near the hospital according to policeGiving Vipins case history police said he is named in a case under the Excise Act registered at the Model Town Police Station and is known to be a drug addictThis year till now the northwest district has arrested or apprehended 470 snatchers and 357 robbers Out of which 89 have been arrested or apprehended by the Shalimar Bagh police station police saidRangnani said a case under sections 392 punishment for robbery and 34 common intension of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the Shalimar Bagh Police StationA video of the snatching has gone viral on social mediaThe incident took place on a day the country remembered Nirbhaya a 23-year-old physiotherapy intern was gang raped and savagely assaulted in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16 2012 She died a fortnight later PTI NIT NIT ANB ANB