They are coming to your city or town in trucks laden with bikes. Not for any promotional activity, but to snatch chains, targeting women walking alone on the roads.
One such gang hailing from Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi was caught in Kamareddy town of Nizamabad two days ago. The possibility of similar gangs moving in the capital city cannot be ruled out, said Hyderabad Police Commissioner M. Mahender Reddy on Friday. These organised criminal gangs are going to different parts of southern States in vans or small trucks. They would carry bikes -mostly stolen- on trucks and halt on the outskirts of a city or a town that they target.
“Riding these bikes, snatchers yank off chains from women and flee in the vans or trucks,” the Commissioner said.
Recently, the Cyberabad police busted a gang of chain snatchers from Hoshangabad of Madhya Pradesh. The members of the gang arrive in the city by trains and bring along their bikes. They would freshen up at the railway station, have breakfast and snatch chains by roaming on their bikes.
They leave the bikes at the parking lot and return to Hoshangabad by train and come back after a fortnight for snatching chains again. Efforts are on to catch the snatchers responsible for committing more than 10 chain snatchings in Hyderabad and Cyberabad.
A surveillance camera captured the picture of two snatchers, who took away a chain from a woman at Filmnagar in Jubilee Hills.
Rs. 50,000 reward announced
Releasing the picture showing blurred image of the snatchers riding a new bike with F/R (for registration) number plate, the Commissioner announced Rs. 50,000 reward for persons giving information leading to their arrest.
People can pass on the information about these snatchers on telephone nos. 040-27852333 or 9490616690.
