Chain snatchers strike again

SANPADA: Women in the city are increasingly at risk as the ongoing spate of chain snatching incidents show. Another such case was reported from Sanpada on Friday, when two men robbed a 34-year old woman of her gold mangalsutra worth Rs62,500.

The woman was walking outside her society at 1.30pm accompanied by her children in Sector1, Sanpada, when two men on a motorbike approached her and the pillion rider snatched the

Thieves have robbed many senior citizens by asking them to hide their jewellery on the pretext of a rumour.

SENIOR POLICE OFFICIAL

expensive mangalsutra.

Another 65-year old woman from Kamothe was robbed of gold worth Rs45,000 by two unidentified men while she was walking back home after picking up her grandchildren from school. The men conned the woman telling her that she should take her gold jewellery off. While she was keeping it in her purse, the two men stole the ornaments.

Police say such cases are not uncommon and several of them involve senior citizens. “Earlier chain snatching cases happened in early morning or late evening, when people went out for jogs. But there have been cases in the afternoon too, thus we have a number of beat marshals, cops in plain clothes on continuous patrol at all times of the day,” said a senior police official.

This is the fifth chain-snatching case in the past four days.