Snatchers strike twice in four hours in Delhi

NEW DELHI: Days after an elderly man was stabbed and robbed by criminals near the Sarai Rohilla railway station in north Delhi, two back-to-back incidents of snatchings in the area within four hours have left the cops on their toes.

The first incident was reported by the wife of a railway employee. She was returning from a market around 5 pm when two men on a white scooter snatched her gold chain and fled.
A few hours later, a doctor heading for night duty at a hospital had his phone snatched in Gulabi Bagh.The area did not have any CCTV camera due to which the snatchers could not be identified. Both the incidents happened within an area of three kilometres.
In the first incident, the woman told the cops that she was walking down the market in Kishanganj when two men on a scooter approached her from behind to block her path. One of them riding pillion snatched the gold chain from her neck and drove off. The 47-year-old woman could not note down the registration number of the scooter as they drove zigzag through the road.
A case of snatching was later registered at the Sarai Rohilla police station.
The doctor was targeted within a few hours after this. In his complaint, the doctor told the cops that he had reached the area from south Delhi and asked the cab driver to drop him a few steps away from the hospital gate. After the doctor took out his phone to call someone, two men arrived from behind and snatched the phone from his hand. “Before I could react, they escaped,” he said.
A case was registered at the Gulabi Bagh police station and a police team later found no CCTV in the area. The possibility of the same group of criminals being involved in the snatchings is being probed. These incidents have left the residents concerned.