New Delhi, Three folks have been arrested in reference to snatching incidents that befell in southeast Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar in December 2025 and this month, an official stated on Friday.
The primary incident was reported on December 16, when a PCR name was acquired concerning a snatching close to Gate No. 1 of Lajpat Nagar Metro Station.
The complainant, Sonali Sharma, advised police that two unidentified males on a bike snatched her gold chain in entrance of a store on Veer Savarkar Marg, a senior police officer stated.
A case was registered on the Lajpat Nagar police station, and an investigation was taken up.
Subsequently, on January 16, two extra incidents of chain snatching had been reported in the identical police station space, with the same modus operandi, the place victims said that the accused got here on a bike and fled after snatching their gold chains.
Separate FIRs had been registered in these instances, police stated. Throughout scrutiny, investigators seen a bike with {a partially} damaged quantity plate in one of many clips, which helped in creating leads via technical surveillance and native inputs, police stated.
Raids had been carried out at numerous suspected hideouts, resulting in the arrest of Hemesh and Vinay Kumar , each residents of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. A jeweller, recognized as Ghanshyam , was additionally apprehended for allegedly receiving the stolen gold chains from the accused, police stated.
Throughout interrogation, the accused allegedly confessed to promoting the snatched gold objects to the jeweller and admitted involvement in a number of such incidents to earn fast cash.
Police stated Hemesh was beforehand lodged in jail in a homicide case in Uttar Pradesh, whereas Vinay and Ghanshyam haven’t any prior felony document as per preliminary verification.
Additional investigation is underway to determine their involvement in different instances, police added.
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