Bengaluru chain snatching

Bengaluru’s Battle Against Chain Snatching: A 40-Year Journey of Policing Evolution

Chain snatching, a term now ingrained in Bengaluru's lexicon, traces its origins back four decades when the city's police were confronted with a perplexing challenge. With the advent of chain-snatching cases in the early 1980s, law enforcement found itself grappling with a novel crime phenomenon, marked by a lack of...