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Crime rate down: Jangid

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Recovered jewellery restored to owners

— Photo: A. MURALITHARAN

Suburban Police Commissioner S.R. Jangid handing over a recovered gold chain to its owner at St. Thomas Mount on Wednesday.

TAMBARAM: Crime cases in the suburbs of Chennai have come down by 20 per cent in 2008 compared to the last year, Chennai Suburban Police Commissioner S.R. Jangid said on Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters after handing over recovered jewels that were stolen from different areas of the city’s suburbs, particularly gold chains snatched from women in the southern suburbs, Mr. Jangid said that of the 818 crime cases - burglary, house breaking and chain snatching among others - 716 were detected.

Of the total property worth Rs. 4.2 crore lost, Rs. 3.69 crore were recovered, a recovery rate of 88 per cent, Mr. Jangid said. The high rate of recovery and the decrease in crime cases in 2008 compared to 2007 was a pointer to increased vigil and better detection strategy adopted by the police teams, he said.

On the occasion, he handed over to women, gold chains that were snatched by five men in the past couple of months. Mr. Jangid said that a spate of chain-snatching cases were reported in the jurisdiction of Tambaram, Chitlapakkam, Selaiyur, Pazhavanthangal, Adambakkam and Madipakkam police stations’ limits.

A special team comprising a dozen personnel arrested the five men – Subash of Madhavaram and Rajesh of Urapakkam, both 21 years old, Sakthivel (22) and Haridas (26), both from Tiruvannamalai and Mohideen (25) of Guindy.

The police recovered gold chains weighing 57 sovereigns, valued at Rs. 6.5 lakh.

The five were involved in 10 chain-snatching cases in the five police stations’ limits. Two other men, Vijaykumar(27) of Aminjikarai and Mohan (30) of Pallavaram, were also arrested for their involvement in crime cases in Pattabiram and Tiruninravur.

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