The police caught its first prey in Gaushala on Tuesday afternoon. According to police, Rabin Tamang, 18, and Sabin Rai, 19, both from Sunsari, had tried to snatch a woman´s jewelry in Pingalasthan, Gaushala while they were riding a motorcycle (Ba.24.Pa 7067).
The police had to devise this strategy after such incidents rose alarmingly over a couple of months, said SP Navaraj Silwal, chief of Metropolitan Police Range Kathmandu.
Though the ambush teams had been deployed at major possible areas, four such incidents took place on Monday alone. “Now we will hopefully continue with successes,” Silwal added.
Metropolitan Police has fielded some hundred women volunteers and over two hundred male and female cops in the capital to ambush the snatchers. According to police, combined ambush groups are mobilized in various sensitive areas. According to a record prepared by police, two such incidents were reported everyday in the capital for the last two months.
Those who are involved in this crime are especially teenagers who are mostly found to be drug addicts. Police said the modus operandi (MO) is simply to ride a motorcycle in a group, enter areas where people move thinly and find the victim from whom the pillion rider snatches whatever comes off handy.
The second incident on Tuesday was only a little different in circumstances. Prakash Rai, 21, a +2 student from Jyatha and Shakti Pujari, 19, from Swayambhu snatched the ring from Sharada Khanal in Kalanki where she was looking for vegetables. The two were trapped in Kalanki within 10 minutes by the ambush group at Soalteemode.
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