P Kavitha (31) was relieved of her six-sovereign chain by an unidentified biker when she was returning home from a shop on Rajendra Prasath Street. 

Similarly, Jayalakshmi (58) of Pudur near Ambattur was snatched of her five-sovereign chain. Though separate cases have been registered at Korattur and Ambattur police stations, police suspect that the same man could be behind both crimes. Further investigation is on with the help of CCTV footage collected from the locality.

Meanwhile, a software engineer was robbed of his mobile phone on Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR) in the wee hours of Tuesday. The victim NK Vishnu was waiting near Madhya Kailash for his friends. Around 5 am, two men reached the spot on a bike, snatched his mobile phone and fled the spot. Vishnu managed to note down the bike registration number and lodged a complaint at Kotturpuram police station. 

Vishnu told DT Next that the police found out that it was a fake registration number and they have already received snatching complaints involving the same vehicle.

Kodambakkam police have secured a four-member gang responsible for a number of mobile phone and chain snatching incidents in the locality. They were identified as G Samson (20) of Arumbakkam, K Karan (20), A Pradip (20) and S Dakshna (20) of Kodambakkam. All four were remanded in judicial custody.

Meanwhile, Traffic police chased and secured a four-member gang which tried to flee with a mobile phone of a lorry driver.

S Vignesh (20), G Santhosh (22), R Srinivasan (21) and V Madhan (18) were arrested and a bike was seized from them. They borrowed a mobile phone from a lorry driver Ayyapan on the pretext of making a call and tried to escape with it from the spot.