Two unidentified criminals snatched jewellery worth several lakh rupees from a shop owner at the Sharma market under the Dhurwa police station area of Ranchi on Monday morning.
The victim Raj Kumar Burman was opening his shop at around 9:30 am when the miscreants, who were keeping a watch on him, snatched his bag containing the valuables and fled away. The trader tried to catch the fleeing criminals but fell and sustained minor injuries. Surprisingly Sharma did not raise an alarm that would have led other people present in the market to stop the criminals.
Police said that the criminals had put something inside the key of the locks of the trader's shop so that he faced problems in opening it. They were also trailing the trader in order to get an opportunity to take away the valuables.
Even though the trader has not given in writing on the amount of the snatched jewellery till evenning, he has said that it was worth over Rs 20 lakh.
The Hatia DSP Binod Ravani and the officers in charge of Dhurwa and other nearby police station rushed to the spot and started the investigations . The DSP said that the traders in the market had not installed CCTV cameras that would have helped in tracing the criminals. He added that efforts were on to identify them by scanning the CCTVs put up by the government in the locality.
It may be stated here that this is the third major crime in Ranchi city in the past three days. Criminals had murdered a rice trader Narendra Singh Hora and looted his money on the main road on Saturday. On Sunday cash amounting to around three lakh was looted from a gas agency unit in the Argora police station area. Ranchi.
Ranchi police claimed that it has taken several measures to curb crime in the state capital. Police said a new patrolling system has become operational in which five pairs of bike borne policemen would patrol each zone of the city during the peak hours. The city has been divided into 20 zones in this regard. This is in addition to the security measures already implemented in the city.