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Rowdy sheeters & chain snatchers in city toll up to 30,000
Rowdy Sheeters & Chain Snatchers in City toll up to 30,000, City Crime Records Bureau. With chain snatchers striking regularly and widespread criticism from all quarters, the police are trying to sketch a few new strategies. grammes with resident welfare associations had not proved much fruitful, either.
More than half of them are youngsters
On Saturday, two unidentified persons escaped with a bag containing Rs 4 lakh from a cashier at Ranigunj. This is not a one-off incident. According to City Crime Records Bureau (CCRB), the city has a population of over 30,000 rowdy sheeters and snatchers in both Hyderabad and Cyberabad combined. The statistics also states that among the 30,000 over 15,000 are in the age group of 15 to 25.
As per Central Crime Station (CCS), maximum number of chain snatching crimes have been reported. In most cases, offenders usually target women walking alone in colonies. Riding a bike, they arrive from nowhere and snatch gold chains and even before the victim recovers, they escape. Miyapur, last week had reported more than four cases of chain snatching. Other noted areas of chain snatching includes KPHB Colony, Ramnagar, Langar Houz, LB Nagar, Sainikpuri and RTC Colony.
With chain snatchers striking regularly and widespread criticism from all quarters, the police are trying to sketch a few new strategies. grammes with resident welfare associations had not proved much fruitful, either.
Police earlier had considered incidents as sporadic and failed to address the issue initially. With cases on the rise in both Cyberabad and Hyderabad commissionerate area, the police doubt that there is an organised behaviour among chain snatchers in both commissionerate areas, interstate gangs as well as Iranian groups.
Speaking to Hyderabad Hans, Sandeep Shandilya, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crimes & SIT), said, “This year until now, there have been 645 cases of chain snatching. the suspicions on Iranian gangs have come down, as they are not much active since the last two months.”
According to senior police officials, due to increase in number of cases and multiple activities in both the commissionerate areas, there would be joint and coordinated operations in both the areas.
According to them, one of the major contributing factors for the rise in chain snatchings is the ease with which gold can be converted into money. Many gold finance companies have come up and these companies offer money within minutes.
Offenders, who snatch chains, approach these companies, pawn brokers and mortgage them very easily. Though, the shop owners insist and mortgage only genuine ornaments, in most cases, offenders' mortgage stolen chains at throw-away prices, which can be beneficial for both shop owners and the offender.
