Pune thieves too have a festival time

PUNE, SEPT 20: With Ganesh being the cynosure during the ongoing mega festival, thieves made hay taking advantage of the crowd engrossed ...

PUNE, SEPT 20: With Ganesh being the cynosure during the ongoing mega festival, thieves made hay taking advantage of the crowd engrossed in festivities in different parts of the city on Sunday.

It was mostly the chain snatchers, according to the police, with a few cases being reported from the Kothrud area. Two youths astride a motorcycle were involved in three such cases when they snatched the chains after threatening Vijaya Ramchandran Bhalerao and Aruna Barve in two separate incidents and fled on their vehicle.

A golf set worth Rs 32,000 kept in a car parked near Wadia College caught eyes of the culprits who broke the window glass and decamped with the equipment. A complaint has been lodged by the owner Maj Gen (retd) Avinash Kohli.

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In another incident, miscreants pounced Vinod Chamanlal who was filming the festivities along with his wife in Bhimpura Galli, snatched his video camera and vanished in the crowd before the couple could react to the situation. Chamanlal has lodged a complaint with theCantonment police.

Despite the huge crowd spilling on to the street participating in the festival leaving their vehicles in bylanes and some isolated places, car stereos and other vehicle accessories have become easy targets. According to a complaint lodged by Prakash Shrirang Ghate, a resident of Kothrud, he found his car windshield broken and his car stereo missing on Sunday.

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