Bengaluru: Six incidents of chains in a day! When two snatchers were transmitted by a bicycle had a day of fields a month ago, IPS officers were young and the Bengaluru rural district supervisor of Kona Vamsi Krishna did not press the panic button.
Think of it as a challenge, he calmly told the people: “Let’s stop them.” On Friday, the police team announced that they called two chain snatchers between countries’ flying high and recovering almost half a kilogram of gold from them.
The arrest was Arjun Kumar aka Arjun Singh, 33, and Rakesh aka Raki, both Ludhiana in Punjab and from the Shamli district at Uttar Pradesh.
With their arrest, the police have completed 11 cases registered with Avalahalli, AG Hallti, Whitefield, Suryanagar, Hebbagodi, Hosakote, Sulibele, Sarjapur and Channarayapatna.
“We have to get it before they are targeting other victims,” Vamsi Krishna said.
He placed a team of 41 police personnel in the hunt, one of the biggest police operations lately.
Apart from increasing its vigilance within the boundaries of their respective police, the police began to mobilize all the tools – taking CCTV images accused, using mobile tracking technology and searching for several places – to zero on charges.
They connected the points by looking at around 1,500 hours of video recording sourced from nearly 500 CCTV cameras installed in the area where the duo was beaten.
After 22 days of inquiry, Police Inspector Hoskote SR Manjunath and his team added two chain snatchers on July 21, when they were preparing to attack again.
The defendant was reportedly involved in more than 25 criminal cases in the Salem district and Krishnagiri in neighboring Tamil Nadu in 2014 and has also been ordered under the GOONDA law by police TN before they left the custody of the justice and began operating in and around Bengaluru.
They flew to B’luru to commit police evil said both of them would travel in their own vehicle from Ludhiana to Delhi and take a plane to Bengaluru.
They used a stolen bike in Bengaluru to commit a crime, parked the vehicle at the train station and traveled to their home town by train along with booty to avoid detection at the airport.
They target women on isolated stretches after approaching them with the pretext of asking for addresses or routes.
The police team was led by additional SP Lakshmi Ganesh and consisted of Dysps T Rangappa and Umashankar MH along with Inspector Manjunath SR, Kempegowda, Rangaswamy HM, Gowtham, Srinivas, Raghavendra and Harish.
Chandrashekar, IGP (center center), praises the team for its efforts.
B’luru: 2 Chain snatchers are held after a 22 day hunting
