White car gang targets Chandigarh woman

Ludhiana: The white car women gang struck again, targeting a Chandigarh resident near Kohara on Tuesday.
This is the third such incident this year in the city.
Kanchan Sharma, 45, said in her police complaint, “I reached Ludhiana from Chandigarh by bus on Tuesday afternoon. I am here to visit my relatives. After alighting from the bus at Kohara bus stand, I was waiting for an auto-rickshaw when a white car stopped near me. A man was at the wheel and three women on the passenger seats.”
The women started talking to her. “After sometime, they offered to drop me at my destination. I agreed and sat in the car. Minutes later, one of the women said she was feeling pukish and leaned on me. The trio then asked me to get down. As soon as I did, the car sped away. I then realised that my gold chain was missing.”
Focal Point police station assistant sub-inspector Surjit Singh said a case has been registered under sections 379-B (snatching) 420 (cheating) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC. “We are scanning the footage of CCTV cameras to trace the accused,” he added.
On the prowl
June 7: The gang robbed an elderly woman, Jaswant Kaur of Urban Estate, Focal Point, of her gold bangles after offering her a lift in their car
May 26: The gang targeted Usha Kakkar, 38, a resident of Tagore Nagar, and robbed her of her gold chain and a bangle on Humbran Road
February 8: Karamjeet Kaur, 70, fell in the trap of the gang that escaped with her gold bangle in Phase II of Urban Estate, Dugri
July 9, 2018: The gang robbed 85-year-old Kamala Malhana of Saheed Udham Singh Nagar of her gold bangles near Tagore Nagar
July 16, 2018: The gang abducted 65-year-old Veena Soni of Pakhowal Road and robbed her of gold bangles in Ghumar Mandi
April 21, 2018: The gang robbed Asha Rani of her four gold bangles in Rishi Nagar