Surat: The Diamond City has witnessed a pointy rise in instances of snatching of mobile phones and gold chains with 110 such instances being registered with quite a lot of police stations in one month on my own in February 2019.
Against this, the whole of 2017 saw simplest 156 instances of snatching being registered with the police. A twofold rise in those instances was once recorded 2018 in comparison to earlier yr. In 2018, total 327 snatchings were reported which is over double of the entire 156 snatchings of 2017. Two males have also been murdered in separate incidents in the town once they tried to thwart attempts to loot their mobile phones during the similar duration.
Senior police officers, alternatively, declare that the upward push is a pan-India phenomenon. Despite the high number of snatchings, a lot of instances never get reported as the victims steer clear of registering a formal complaint, they stated.
In the figures compiled by way of town police, 103 mobile phones and seven gold chains were snatched in February. Going by way of the figures, on a mean four snatchings have taken place in at some point in the town. Of such instances in February, 49 cellular snatching instances were solved by way of police, along side one case of chain snatching. In January, 31 instances of snatching were registered with police.
The rise in snatching instances in 2019 is not sudden, stated police.
Officials defined that there's sharp building up in the number of instances in February as some pending lawsuits of 2018 too have been registered this yr. Police didn't check in lawsuits in an instant in spite of directives by way of town police commissioner Satish Sharma not to prolong registration. However, those officers are yet to face movements for a yr’s prolong in registering offences of snatching, stated assets.
“Our focal point is to be sure that every incident get registered with police. If we don’t check in those instances we will be able to never come to know how to keep an eye on it,” Sharma told TOI.
Of the snatching instances reported this yr, the perfect have reported from areas like Sarthana, Khatodara, Umra, Mahidharpura, Rander and Adajan.
Against this, the whole of 2017 saw simplest 156 instances of snatching being registered with the police. A twofold rise in those instances was once recorded 2018 in comparison to earlier yr. In 2018, total 327 snatchings were reported which is over double of the entire 156 snatchings of 2017. Two males have also been murdered in separate incidents in the town once they tried to thwart attempts to loot their mobile phones during the similar duration.
Senior police officers, alternatively, declare that the upward push is a pan-India phenomenon. Despite the high number of snatchings, a lot of instances never get reported as the victims steer clear of registering a formal complaint, they stated.
In the figures compiled by way of town police, 103 mobile phones and seven gold chains were snatched in February. Going by way of the figures, on a mean four snatchings have taken place in at some point in the town. Of such instances in February, 49 cellular snatching instances were solved by way of police, along side one case of chain snatching. In January, 31 instances of snatching were registered with police.
The rise in snatching instances in 2019 is not sudden, stated police.
Officials defined that there's sharp building up in the number of instances in February as some pending lawsuits of 2018 too have been registered this yr. Police didn't check in lawsuits in an instant in spite of directives by way of town police commissioner Satish Sharma not to prolong registration. However, those officers are yet to face movements for a yr’s prolong in registering offences of snatching, stated assets.
“Our focal point is to be sure that every incident get registered with police. If we don’t check in those instances we will be able to never come to know how to keep an eye on it,” Sharma told TOI.
Of the snatching instances reported this yr, the perfect have reported from areas like Sarthana, Khatodara, Umra, Mahidharpura, Rander and Adajan.
Steep rise in cases of snatching in city
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March 25, 2019
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