Chandigarh: Snatchers target two women within 40 minutes

Snatch a 23-year-old woman’s gold chain near Chandigarh’s Sector-36/37-41/42 roundabout around 9 pm and an 87-year-old woman’s purse in Sector 44 around 9.40 pm

Two women fell prey to snatchers within a span of 40 minutes in Chandigarh on Thursday night.

Prerna, 23, who hails from Hisar, Haryana, was the first victim, who lost her gold chain to the snatchers. (HT)

Prerna, 23, who hails from Hisar, Haryana, was the first victim, who lives in Sector 50 in a rented accommodation.

She told the police that she was returning home from her coaching class around 9 pm. As she reached the Sector-36/37-41/42 roundabout, two scooter-borne men snatched her gold chain and sped away.

In the next 40 minutes, Manvinder Kaur, 87, a resident of Sector 44, lost her purse to a motorcycle-borne snatcher. Kaur said she was walking back home from the market, when a motorcyclist snatched her purse containing her mobile phone, ₹600 in cash, three ATM cards and documents.

Acting on the women’s complaints, police lodged separate FIRs under Section 379-A (snatching) of the Indian Penal Code at the police stations in Sectors 36 and 34, and launched a probe to nab the accused.