Gang of 4 chain snatchers arrested

Telangana |  Suryaa Desk  | Published : Tue, Jan 09, 2018, 12:23 PM

Hyderabad: In a major breakthrough, the Rachakonda police on Monday nabbed four members of a chain-snatchers gang who had been targeting women and causing panic in LB Nagar neighbourhood in the recent past. The four accused included three engineering students and a college dropout, police said.

Interrogations revealed that the gang was involved in 18 other robberies committed in a span of three months.

The suspects used to borrow bikes from friends to commit the offences. One of the suspects is the son of a police constable.

The arrested — identified as Chavan Suraj, Kommu Pavan Kumar, Mohd Owais Ahmed and Mamidi Rohit Kumar — are addicted to ganja, alcohol and a lavish lifestyle. They took to snatching and to maintain their lifestyle.

Police said none of them owned vehicles and borrowed bikes and scooters from friends on the pretext of a ride or work. They would commit robberies and return the bikes without their friends even knowing what they were up to.

More than a month ago, they four were apprehended by patrolling teams who found them moving about suspiciously, but they got away by showing their student identity cards.

Often the accused were very high on ganja and even forgot the places they committed the crimes. After detaining them, police showed the CCTV footage of different cases they were involved in, after which they confessed to their involvement in the offences. All four were found to have attended drug de-addiction counselling; one of them is in fact still undergoing treatment.

Rachakonda police commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat said that all the suspects were detained from their college campuses. They robbed elderly women or women walking alone on deserted streets, and spent the booty on ganja, alcohol etc, he said.

“They are involved in nine snatching cases in LB Nagar, five in Saroornagar, two in Chaitanyapuri and one each in Meerpet and Vanasthalipuram.”








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