Showing a rare promptness Dehradun Police was able to apprehend the motorcycle borne youths in less than 24 hours, who had snatched gold chain of a woman on Saturday.
Informing the newsmen at his office the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ajay Rautela said that gold chain of Yasoda Chauhan a resident of Pritam Road Dalawala was snatched by two motorcycle borne men on Inder Road on Saturday. The police registered a case and on investigation it was revealed that the thieves were on a black pulsar bike which had registration number ending with 22.
The SSP said that many teams at the level of police stations were constituted to nab the culprits. He informed that the appearance of the chain snatchers and the last two digits (22) of the bike was flashed to all the police stations and mobile teams.
On Sunday morning the police team positioned at Asha rody Check post spotted two youths on a pulsar motor cycle and when the police signalled them to stop they tried to flee. The police team nabbed the youths and found that one of them had tucked the original number plate (with number ending with 22) of the motorcycle inside his shirt.
The police recovered the broken pieces of the gold chain from the culprits. On interrogation the duo revealed that they had followed the woman on scooty for some time before snatching the chain.
They also accepted their involvement in failed attempt to snatch a chain on Friday near Patel Nagar. The culprits Amir Khan and Faisal Khan are the residents of Muzzafarnagar of Uttar Pradesh and were working as painters in Dehradun for some time. The police is searching the criminal record of the of the duo to check their involvement in other crimes.
The SSP declared a cash prize for the police team consisting of Police post (Asha Rodi) in charge, Umesh Kumar, Constables Chandra Mohan, Amit Kumar, Ramkripal and home guard Pradip Kumar.