75 snatchers held in over one month

Snatching has been a bane of the holy city with tourists, women and every common man on the target list of miscreants.

In order to curb such incidents, the police have launched a massive drive against the menace and arrested 75 snatchers in 38 snatching cases during past over one month. The police also recovered valuables worth Rs 8.86 lakh from their possession.

“We dealing with snatching incidents on priority basis. There has been a rise in snatchings in the past. People have expressed their concern over such incidents,” said Police Commissioner (CP) Gurpreet Singh Bhullar. He said, “A special drive has been launched to nail snatchers. Priority is given to detection and prevention of the crime.”

Apart from arresting snatchers, the police initiated preventive action against 240 miscreants, including drug peddlers, to reduce the crime rate in the city. Besides, 311 persons were instructed to appear before the police on regular basis.

The police also arrested 89 drug traffickers leading to the recovery of 18 kg heroin and over Rs 33 lakh drug money from them during the period of over one month. Similarly, the police confiscated 24 illegal firearms from 22 persons in six different cases. The police also seized two rifles, 27 magazines and 73 bullets from miscreants.

Besides, a campaign was launched against proclaimed offenders (POs). So far, 35 POs were arrested by the police during the drive in the district.