HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad and Rachakonda police have launched a joint operation to nab the culprits after two incidents of chain snatching were reported in the city on Friday.
According to police, the incidents occurred in Vanasthalipuram and Saidabad in which a total of five tola of gold was stolen from the victims. According to police, Narsamma (72), a resident of SBH Colony, runs a small grocery shop. At around 8.00 p.m. On Thursday, two persons came on a bike. The rider parked the bike at a distance, while the pillion approached the shop asking for bubble gum.
Even as she was opening the boxes to give him the gum, he snatched her two-tola gold chain and sped away. In the second incident at CBI Colony, Bhagyamma (52), a native of Guntur district, who came to the city to meet his son, was returning home along with her grandson. A lone snatcher wearing helmet and riding a bike, approached her at high speed and sped away after snatching her gold chain weighing three
tolas.