A total of 28.5 sovereigns of gold jewellery were stolen in three chain snatching incidents reported in less than seven hours under Madurai city police limits on Thursday.
Police sources said that the first incident took place near Circuit House on Alagarkovil Road in the afternoon. According to the first information report, two men coming on a motorbike waylaid A. Selvakumar and his wife S. Jayanthi, school teachers residing in K. Pudur, and robbed Ms. Jayanthi of a 15.5-sovereign gold chain and sped away.
Tallakulam police have registered a case.
The next incident was reported at around 6 p.m. near Kalai Nagar Fourth Cross Street, barely five km away from the place where the first incident took place, in which B. Mersi Jada (53), a school headmistress residing in the same area, was the victim.
In a manner similar to the first incident, two men snatched a five-sovereign gold chain from her. The Koodalpudur police are investigating.
The third incident was also reported under Koodalpudur police limits near CRO Colony First Street around 9 p.m., in which two motorbike-borne men snatched a gold chain weighing eight sovereigns from S. Manimegalai (28), a resident of Mahatma Gandhi Nagar.
The police sources said that they had not ruled out the possibility of the involvement of the same gang.