Chain snatching incidents in the city seem to continue unabated.
Until recently, motorcycle-borne chain-snatchers were targeting women walking alone in the suburbs and deserted streets in residential colonies.
Now, such incidents are being reported from busy and populated areas in the heart of the city as well. A day after chain-snatchers struck on College Road, a motorcycle-borne duo robbed a woman of her jewellery when she was riding pillion on her husband’s two-wheeler near the U.S. Consulate, where police personnel are posted round the clock.
Police said that Gopalakrishnan, 56, of T. Nagar, was taking his wife Indirani, 55, a tailor, on his two-wheeler to deliver cloth to a customer in Royappettah.
At 10.45 p.m., they were on Cathedral Road and had crossed the U.S. Consulate when two persons on a high-end bike snatched her chain, weighing five sovereigns, from behind. They fled the scene even before the victim could raise an alarm.
Special team formed
The couple lodged a complaint with the Royapettah police and a special team has been constituted to nab the accused.
According to sources, no CCTV unit had been installed in the area.
Only two weeks ago, another woman, who was riding with her daughter, was robbed by motor-bike borne chain snatchers on Anna Flyover.
