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To add insult to injury, four snatchings took place in broad daylight — between 12 noon and 2 pm. The snatchers had the audacity to pick busy market places and temple entrances, which were thick with people on the occasion of Shivratri. Near one such temple, two young miscreants vanished after the act, right under the nose of policemen.
Officers posted at the dozens of police nakas, set up across the city, were left scratching their heads.
Nearly a dozen incidents of snatching have taken place in the last 24 hours — the lack of apprehension making miscreants bold and reckless. Most snatchings took place during the day, in marketplaces and inner roads of sectors. These inner roads, where women take a stroll, are their favourite haunts. Fleeing after the crime is also easy here.
The modus operandi also does not need the Pentagon to crack it.
They hunt in pairs, mostly on two-wheelers. The pillion rider executes the crime. In most cases, the registration numbers of the vehicles are either blurred or fake.
This is how they did it
* 12 noon: Resident of Sector 46, Sheema, was the first victim. She was on her way home when two young men on a black motorbike (CH-01-N-7410) zoomed past her, taking her neckpiece in the process. The incident took place near S D Mandir in Sector 32. A case was registered in the Sector 34 police station.
* 12.05 pm: Housewife Sushma Gupta, who stays in Sector 29, was also on her way home after visiting the nearby Baba Balak Nath Temple. Two young men, sneaked up behind her in a black Pulsar motorbike, and snatched her gold chain. The registration number of the vehicle could not be noted down.
* 12.45 pm: Sector 27’s Kanchan Aggarwal had just come out of the Satti Mata Mandir when she was accosted by two bike-borne knaves, who lunged at the chain around her neck and successfully made away with it. She had screamed for help, but no one came to her rescue.
* 2.05 pm: Krishna from Sector 40 was outside her home when two youngsters, again on a bike, crept up behind her. The pillion rider pulled at her gold chain and the duo vanished from the scene in seconds.
* 8.30 pm: Sector 41-C resident Rajdhal had finished work at the Sector 35-C market and was about to get into her car when she was attacked by two men on a mobike. They snatched her chain and fled from that busy market before anybody could note down the registration number.
* 8.45 pm: The same thing happened to Gayatri who was in the Sector 38 market when two unidentified men on a two-wheeler snatched her gold chain and vanished in the dark.
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