In a recent success the Pendurti police nabbed two youths involved in two chain snatching incidents.
What was intriguing was that the both the pieces of jewellery – pusthela thadu – were recovered intact.
There was no sign of any damage to the auspicious threads that hold the chain in place, unlike a typical chain snatching in which the chain would have snapped or the thread cut.
“The robbers are adept in their art which is evident in their pulling the chains from behind without damaging it or without its getting stuck in the victim’s hair,” says Assistant Commissioner of Police (north) C.M. Naidu.
Both the victims were near their homes and caught unawares, one was walking in the evening and the other was throwing the domestic garbage in the street-corner bin.
Moral of the story, wrap yourself well to ensure that your jewellery is not visible even if you are just stepping out of your home.
The death of two sisters, studying in 9 and 6 classes at Ravindra Bharathi School in a road accident at Pattabhi Reddy Gardens recently evoked anger and resentment among the people of the area.
The girls were going on a motorcycle along with a relative to their school, when the motorcycle was hit by a school bus. The residents fumed at the carelessness of the bus driver, who they said drove at high speed while going down a slope in a lane. Some of them demanded construction of speed breakers on the road to check over-speeding and showed the possible places where they could be set up to the Traffic Police. “I spoke to Zonal Commissioner of the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation in this regard and he promised to visit the area. But, the residents and colony association leaders who were initially vociferous in their demand, failed to give a written representation for construction of speed breakers so far,” Assistant Commissioner of Police (Traffic) L. Arjun said on Tuesday. “We are insisting on a written representation as we had problems at Allipuram area in the past. Residents who demand speed breakers when accidents happen later blame police for ‘creating hurdles in smooth flow of traffic’.
