Youngster’s arrest helps solve 9 cases

Mysuru: Continuing their winning streak in cracking chain snatching cases, Mysuru city police have uncovered eight more cases of robberies by miscreants on bikes by arresting a youth.
Nine gold chains weighing 290 grams have been confiscated from him. In one case two chains were robbed from a woman in Saraswatipuram police limits. The accused had also snatched a gold chain from a woman in Srirangapatna in the neighbouring Mandya district. His arrest helped police close eight cases including two each in the limits of Vidyaranyapuram and Mandi police stations and one each in Vijayanagar, Saraswatipuram and Kuvempunagar police stations, police said on Tuesday.
Saraswatipuram police had formed a special team after a woman was robbed of her gold chain and the team led by inspector Ravindra CM, supervised by ACP Gangadhara Swamy SE arrested the accused. tnn