Motorcyclist chain snatcher allegedly involved in six incidents in Hyderabad and Rachakonda police limits. File photo: Arranging.
Hyderabad city police, officials of Rachakonda and Cyberabad police commissionerates and various police units of the districts on Sunday intensified checking of vehicles to nab suspects involved in the previous day’s serial chain snatching incidents, vehicle thefts and robberies .
The surprise checks at various intersections in the city began around 5 am, in which the traffic police and local units participated, and continued till around 8 am.
The chain snatching took place in a contiguous belt spread across six police station limits in Hyderabad and Rachakonda police commissionerates.
The city police have formed 20 teams as part of a special operation, which are spread across all suspected directions to nab the accused. Senior officials expressed confidence that the duo and their team would be busted soon with crucial evidence and clues to their modus operandi related to their past crimes in the southern states.
Police suspected that two men, who were seen fleeing on a stolen motorcycle in a CCTV footage related to Saturday’s crimes, were residents of a Delhi suburb. Based on photographs and videos, the city police compared similar snatching crimes with those registered in Bengaluru on Friday, and their features matched those of the suspects.
These two are believed to have entered the Hyderabad border, carried out a series of snatches and escaped by train.
Based on public information, CCTV footage circulated, it was initially suspected that the snatchers had boarded the Karnataka Sampark Kranti Express at Kacheguda. Kazipet police along with Government Railway Police units boarded the train to stop it and search it. The units traveled as far as Balharshah station, but with no result.
The Warangal police and police units on the state’s borders circulated pictures of the suspected couple, and asked the general public to dial 100 if they had information.