The police officials claim to be close to solving the three chain snatching incidents reported fom different parts of the city on Tuesday afternoon within three hours.
Addl SP Rajesh Bhadoria told that all the three victims after going through CCTV footages felt that the offenders might be the same and on this basis, the cops showed them photographs of notorious criminals of the city.
Sources claimed that the police have succeeded in identifying one criminal who was involved in the three cases, but the police are not ready to speak out anything on the matter. However, it has been established that same miscreants were involved in the three robberies.
One of the miscreants who committed robberies was involved in the robberies in the past and was lodged in the jail. He got released in the last week of November. The miscreant riding the motorbike has not been identified yet and investigation to establish the identity is going on. In the initial investigation five persons have been detained and questioned regarding the whereabouts of the miscreants, he added.
Police said that the CCTV footage camera at Shahpura provided vital link as the miscreants were captured by the camera which helped the victim to identify them.
A hunt has been intensified and all the nearby areas are being searched and places where the possibility of the miscreants are been raided and the remaining places would be raided. Notably three women were robbed of gold chains in Kolar, Govindpura and Shahpura police station areas within a span of three hours in the afternoon.