Five gold chains recovered, five cases solved

Mysore/Mysuru: Jayapura Police have solved five chain-snatching cases by arrested two chain-snatchers and recovering five gold chains besides seizing a bike used for the crime.

The arrested are 28-year-old Sunny Donald of R.S. Naidu Nagar and 22-year-old Kiran of Hinkal.

The Police, who took custody of the duo when they were moving around in a suspicious manner at Mandi Mohalla at about 8 am on Sept. 17, interrogated them at the Police Station, during which the accused are said to have confessed of snatching a gold chain from a 74-year-old woman at Somanathanagar on Aug. 20.

Following the arrest, the Police have solved two chain-snatching cases each at Jayapura and Mysuru South Rural Police Stations and one case at Varuna Police Station. The accused were produced before a Court, which remanded them to judicial custody. 

Mysuru South Rural Sub-Inspectors V.C. Vanaraju and K.C. Mohan Kumar, Probationary Sub-Inspector Sadashiva Thippareddy and staff C. Jagadish, H.C. Ravi, Prasanna Kumar, P.V. Mohan, N.A. Ashok, S. Girish, Krishna, N.S. Girish, Nanjundaswamy, Satish, Thimmaiah, Arunesh, Raghavendra and Sadashiva took part in the nabbing and recovery operation.