A few metres without street lights and a couple of seconds is all that miscreants want to snatch away your mobile phone or valuables, even at places that are buzzing with activity in the heart of the city.
Neatly dressed miscreants (mostly youth) come in bikes and manage to speed away before the victims raise an alarm.
Around 8.15 p.m. on Saturday, a 40-year-old man was walking around Nehru Stadium, talking over his mobile phone. He was walking through a dark stretch which was without lights - as shops there were closed. Two men came speeding behind him, snatched his mobile phone and fled the place.
With no lights there, he could not note the vehicle’s registration number or the vehicle model.
Race Course Police on receiving the complaint said that about half-a-dozen incidents of this kind were reported in the city over the last two weeks.
According to the police, miscreants were in wait near places without lights, even near the pockets buzzing with business, and snatched mobile phones or valuables when the victims were alone.
A top police officer said that there are quite a number of such dark places in the city. While no drive has been conducted by the police to identify such places, the officer said that based on specific complaints from the public they were drawing the attention of the Corporation to such areas, asking the local body to erect street lights there.
People coming across crime prone pockets in their locality could take them to the notice of the police by clicking such places and sending it with details to the city police whatsapp number ‘8190000100’.
