In a major breakthrough in cracking the chain snatching cases reported here over the last three months, the Mysuru city police have arrested 10 persons accused in chain snatching incidents and recovered 25 gold chains weighing about one kg. The value of gold jewellery recovered in chain snatching cases and ornaments in house break theft (HBT) cases is over ₹50 lakh.
With the arrests, the police said it has solved 25 chain snatching cases reported in Mysuru city and Chamarajanagar districts.
A special team of the Crime Branch was constituted by the Police Commissioner Chandragupta after a series of chain snatching incidents in the city. The bike-borne miscreants were targeting lonely women either in the mornings or evenings and robbing them of their gold ornaments, mainly ‘mangalsutra’.
