This story is from October 22, 2021

All in a day: Cop among 3 targeted by snatchers in northeast Delhi

An assistant sub-inspector on his way to duty, a woman out shopping and a man returning home all became victims of snatchers in northeast Delhi on Tuesday.
All in a day: Cop among 3 targeted by snatchers in northeast Delhi
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NEW DELHI: An assistant sub-inspector on his way to duty, a woman out shopping and a man returning home all became victims of snatchers in northeast Delhi on Tuesday.
In the first case, the 53-year-old ASI's phone was snatched in Gokulpuri area on Wednesday morning. The victim was posted in the police control room unit and was waiting for a bus when a motorcyclist grabbed his phone and fled. Shyampal Singh lives in Ganga Vihar and was waiting for his bus near the Gokulpuri petrol pump.
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A man on a bike rode up from the direction of Gokulpuri metro station and snatched the ASI’s mobile phone.
“He snatched my phone from my pocket and fled towards Nand Nagri," the complainant told police. The accused was not wearing a helmet. The ASI hailed an auto and started chasing the snatcher, but the latter eluded his pursuer. Later, a case under the Indian Penal Code’s sections 356 for assault and use of criminal force and 379 for theft was registered at Gokulpuri police station.
In another case on Wednesday, a woman who had stepped out to go shopping became another victim of snatchers. According to the complainant, she took her two daughters and proceeded to Jyoti Colony. When the trio approached Durgapuri Chowk, two men on a Bullet motorcycle snatched her gold earrings and rode away. “We tried to catch them, but they escaped and we could only make a PCR call,” the complainant told the cops. A case was registered in this regard.

Meanwhile, in the third incident, 22-year-old man Avdesh Kumar, a resident of Loni in UP, was returning to his home on Tuesday night around 8.15pm. He was waiting for an autorickshaw when he got a phone call. But as soon as he took out his phone to take the call, two youths sped up on a bike and fled with his phone.
“They came on a motorcycle and snatched my phone," Kumar said in his complaint. A case under IPC sections 356,379 and 34 (criminal act with common intention) has been registered.
According to police data, of the 1,75,327 criminal cases, 3,246 of them heinous ones, registered in Delhi till August 15, over 5,100 related to snatchings and 1,264 to robberies.
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