Mumbai Robbery: Bike-borne chain snatchers rob 6 women

On Tuesday evening in a series of robbery, six elderly women were robbed of their mangalsutras by a duo on bike. The bike-borne thieves robbed the women within a gap of an hour in Vikhroli and Mulund area. The police suspect it was the work of same two persons, both of them were on a Bajaj Pulsar 220 bike.

Gold chains worth over Rs 5 lakh were stolen by the thieves. The victims were identified as Vijaya Pedamkar, 67, Rajashri Hule, 54, Bharti Bansode, 53, and Leelabai Gaikwad, 70, in Vikhroli, and Jaya Krushnan, 78, and Vanita Wavale, 67, in Mulund.

According to an eyewitness, Pedamkar was on her way to a bhajan meeting when she was robbed. “Upon seeing the two waiting on one side of the isolated road, she started walking on the other side. When she neared them, they suddenly took the bike to the other side and fled with her chain,” said the eyewitness to Mumbai Mirror.

Some distance away the duo robbed Hule’s mangalsutra, weighing 1.5 tolas, from a small distance away. Bansode was targeted by the thieves when she was returning from a grocery shop. “They first went ahead of me, took a Uturn before pulling away my chain and fleeing. I tried to follow them but they sped away,” said Bansode to Mumbai Mirror.

The thieves fled with eight and 1.5 tolas of gold belonging to Krushnan and Wavale respectively, from nearby Mulund’s Sambhaji Raje garden area. “We have registered a case in the matter and are going through CCTV footage from the area to identify the biker or the registration number of the vehicle they used. This is a serious case as they have carried out six snatchings in just an hours’ time,” said a police official from Vikhroli police station to Mumbai Mirror.