Railway police nab chain snatcher using technology

Railway police use advanced technology to apprehend a chain snatcher in Mysuru after a thorough investigation.

In a joint operation, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the Government Railway Police (GRP) managed to nab a 25-year-old man for allegedly snatching a gold chain from a 62-year-old woman passenger on board a train in Mysuru.

According to a complaint lodged with the GRP in Mysuru, Ms. Shashikala, a resident of Kengeri in Bengaluru, was travelling from Mysuru to Kengeri on the Rajya Rani Express when an unidentified man attempted to snatch the gold chain from her neck, minutes after the train departed from the platform in Mysuru at around 2.55 p.m. on February 6.

Though the complainant held on tightly to her necklace, the unidentified person forcibly snatched it and jumped out of the moving train.

Though the complainant managed to save about 10 grams of her necklace, the offender snatched the rest of the gold chain, weighing about 40 grams and valued at around ₹5.5 lakh, before fleeing.

After a case was registered by the GRP, a special team comprising the RPF and its crime intelligence branch was formed to trace the offender.

The team gathered about 200 hours of CCTV footage from multiple strategic locations, including the Mysuru railway station, railway yard and parts of Mysuru city, bus stands and Bengaluru. “Through meticulous examination and systematic analysis of the footage, the movement pattern of the offender was traced,” said a statement from the RPF.