Hyderabad: Bike borne chain-snatchers robbed three women a day before Ganesh Chaturthi in different areas under Rachakonda Commissionerate and looted around five tolas of gold. The snatchers succeeded in two locations but failed in the third one.
Police said in P&T colony in Saroornagar police station limits, Vijayalakshmi, 39, was returning home after purchasing vegetables. The snatchers approached her from behind and grabbed her three tola gold chain and sped away. In the other incident in Vaishalinagar in Champapet under Saroornagar police station, R. Lakshmi, 50, was robbed while she was on way home from the vegetable market.
Police susupects the snatchers in two cases to be the same as both the incidents happened within two hours and the spots were just two kilometers apart.
