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| A screen grab of the interview with Malviya Nagar Maniacs (video below) |
Staff correspondent, September 19, 2015, NewsCrunch
The teen football club at Malviya Nagar has caught the nation’s imagination after a CCTV footage of them chasing and catching a mobile thief went viral.
Most of them are not even adults, just students between class 10 and 12 in nearby schools in New Delhi. But they showed heartening courage when the rushed to help an Uzbek woman, who had just been robbed.
Three of the group of teens, who call themselves Malviya Nagar Maniacs, spoke to The Quint.
They say it was 10.15 pm in the night when they heard the woman scream and saw a man assaulting and trying to snatch her mobile.
He ran very fast, but they managed to catch up with him at a nearby school. He was pretending not to be guilty, but they held him against a car as others joined in.
They were little scared initially as they feared that the thief and his gang may come after them seeking vengeance. But with the limelight turned on them, they feel safe now.
Here are some of the young chaps who are part of Malviya Nagar Maniacs:
Sarthak Sharma, class XII, LBS School R K Puram, Arun Singh Rajput, class XII, St Paul's School, Japneet, II year, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Aayush Joshi, class XII, Vikas Kashyap, class X, New Green Field school, Ujjwal Verma, class XI student, Ramjas School.