Padmanabha Nagar residents alert after string of chain snatching cases

Reported by Anita Rajan

Fourth Street Padmanabhanagar, Adyar is a lonely road, especially after six p.m.

Three cases of chain snatching have been reported to have taken place in this area during the past year. 

One of the victims, Nalini Muthu, says she was walking down the street in August last year, at around 7.30pm, when two men on a motorbike sped past her. 

What was unusual was that they came back and within a fraction of a second, yanked her gold chain and took off.

She then registered a complaint at the J-5 Police Station, and the accused were eventually caught a few weeks later. 

Another victim was a maid servant who was walking to the bus stop, when a man tried grabbing her thali.

She managed to hold on to it and it was a failed attempt.

Inspector of crime, Riyaz, of the J-5 Police Station states that every alternate day, two Inspectors patrol the area after 6pm.

He adds that these chain snatchers usually ride bikes at high speed and target married women or older as they are the ones who usually wear their thalis all the time.

As a precautionary measure, the police have gone around to the houses in the neighborhood to warn the residents about the chain snatching activity in the area and have told them to be alert and careful.