Database to help police keep tab on snatchers

Ludhiana: In the wake of snatching and loot incidents in the city, the Ludhiana Police has started making a database of all the snatchers and habitual offenders involved in such crimes, who are out on bail.
This information is helping police crack theft and snatching cases executed lately.
Joint commissioner of police (rural) Kanwardeep Kaur has taken this initiative in the zones II and IV of Ludhiana commissionerate.
Kaur said, “As there are several snatching and loot cases in the two zones, the drive has been started there to keep a tab on snatchers. We have identified 225 snatchers that came out of jail on bail over the past one year. Their dossiers have been made. Of them, 18 have been arrested under Section 110 of the CrPC and sent to judicial custody.”
“Besides, all these snatchers will have to visit the respective police stations every week to mark their attendance. This will help in keeping a check on their activities too,” she added.
In one such case reported on September 1, three unidentified masked miscreants on a bike had snatched Rs 2.80 lakh from an elderly man outside a bank in Miller Ganj, Gill Road. The accused pushed Kuljit Singh, 75, an employee of a bearing and oil store, Dholewal, and snatched the cash bag. When the bank security guard tried to nab the snatchers, they brandished a pistol and escaped.
While tracing the snatchers, the police have been able to solve some recent cases of snatchings and thefts. Recently, the police had recovered eight bikes from vehicle-lifters, who were traced under this drive, she said.