Cops make no headway in chain snatching cases

Hyderabad: Even as multiple departments of the Hyderabad police are investigating chain-snatching incidents in Narayanguda and Jubilee Hills last month, the robbery near City Lights Hotel in Secunderabad late on Monday night caught them off-guard. In the robbery near City Lights Hotel, where the suspects on a bike attacked the victim with a knife and stole gold and diamond jewellery worth over Rs 27 lakh, police received some leads pointing to the involvement of repeat offenders. The Narayanguda-Jubilee Hills bag-snatching was initially suspected of being involved in jewellery store heist in Nagole but this was ruled out with the arrest of the accused by the Rachakonda police on Wednesday. The suspects followed employees of another jewellery store from Panjagutta to Jubilee Hills Road 45 and stole their bag in the second offence.