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Cops nab two of chain-snatching gang
Nizamabad police arrested two Uttar Pradesh based interstate chain snatchers of the seven-member team and recovered one tola gold, country-made pistol, four rounds of bullets, a DCM van and a pulsar bike.
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Nizamabad: Nizamabad police arrested two Uttar Pradesh based interstate chain snatchers of the seven-member team and recovered one tola gold, country-made pistol, four rounds of bullets, a DCM van and a pulsar bike.
This team orchestrated 27 snatchings in South Indian states including Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
The arrested members threatened the Nakrekal police in Nalgonda district this year with pistol while practicing snatching.
On Thursday, Kamareddy police arrested Deepak (23) and Hukum Singh (33) at Kamareddy outskirts. Deepak, Hukum Singh, Jai Prakash, Sujin Rati and others formed a seven-member team.
Their modus operandi was come to the southern states in a DCM van with motor cycles, park the van at dhabas and carry out chain snatchings in the nearby villages.
While two members operate the van and other two members do the chain snatching. The other members collect the gold from their team members and sell it.
Nizamabad Superintendent of Police Chandrashekhar Reddy said, “A few villagers from the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh are habituated to thefts and chain snatchings as their profession.
They are involved in chain snatching in South Indian States because South Indian women wear more ornaments.”
The SP said that the gang committed 27 chain snatching offences in last one year and got away with nearly one kg gold. izamabad police formed a few teams to arrest other members of the team and recover the stolen ornaments.
SP Chandrashekar Reddy further said that in Shamli district people of nearly 10 villages were practicing burglary as a profession.
