In serial snatching incidents, two bike-borne criminals snatched gold chains from as many as three women at separate places under Bistupur police station area last night, sending the police into a tizzy.
The three incidents took place on the roads near JH Tarapore School, Sacred Heart Convent and Keenan Stadium, all three spots under Bistupur police station between 7.30 pm to 9 pm, leading the police to swing into action late in the night after the incidents were reported to them.
The first incident took place, when Deepak Kumar, a resident of Adityapur, was riding his bike with his elderly mother sitting pillion through the JH Tarapore School in Dhatkidih. The bike-borne criminals snatched the gold chain and sped away toward BH Area.
The second incident took place at about 8.00 pm when the two criminals snatched gold chain from the neck of a 30-year-old woman near Sacred Heart Convent. The victim, Manjula Devi was returning home at Panchavati Nagar in Sonari from Sakchi market. While she was crossing through the Sacred Heart Convent Road, the criminals came from behind and the one riding pillion snatched Manjula's chain.
The third incident took place near Keenan Stadium at about 9 pm, when a 35-year-old man Samir Kumar was riding back home on a bike with his wife sitting pillion. As the bikers snatched the gold-chain from Samir's wife
“We are still in shock. We were coming from a relative's house in Sonari back to our residence in Agrico at about 9 pm, while the road passing along the Sacred Heart Convent appeared to be lonely. I heard my wife screaming. On turning around I saw two youths, who were in their early twenties, were on bike close to ours. One of them who was sitting pillion was extending his left hand toward my wife's neck. Before I could understand something, the duo sped away," recalled Samir who is a junior doctor posted at MGM Medical College Hospital.
OC, Bistupur police station, Shreeniwas confirmed about the chain-snatching incidents at Bistupur on Monday night. “We are trying to detect the case by taking out footages from the CCTV cameras installed in front of the JH Tarapore School where one of the incidents took place,” said the officer-in-charge.
Shreeniwas claimed while making attempts to detect the chain-snatchers, they have also intensified patrolling on the roads.
According to records available, during the past six months, over 100 incidents of chain-snatching and bag-snatching have been reported in different thana areas across the city, but the police have cracked only few cases.
A police official said that persons, whose movements were found to be suspicious, were detained in the last two months. Besides, the police have been keeping extra vigil in residential colonies not only during night but daytime too.