Maximum snatching cases reported in 2018

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana May 22

If the data supplied by the office of the Commissioner of Police, Ludhiana, is to be believed, the year 2018 witnessed maximum (447) cases of snatching.

However, since 2010, in total, the city reported 2,323 cases of snatching and on an average, 200 cases per year are being registered.

Pertinently, these are the ones in which complainants approached the police for registration of case, but there may be several other cases in which victims didn’t file any complaint.

Information was obtained by RTI activist Rohit Sabharwal (copy with The Tribune). Of 2,323 cases registered since 2010, the police managed to solve 1,646 cases while 677 still remain unsolved.

In most of the unsolved cases, even the snatchers are unknown and police have not even a single clue.

As per the data, from January 1 to March 31, 2019, 112 cases have been registered, of which the police solved only 62.

Maximum 447 cases were reported in 2018, of which 331 were solved, followed by 445 cases in 2017, of which only 296 cases were solved.

Minimum 133 cases were reported in 2011 and 2013 each, of which 91 and 96 were solved by the police, respectively.

“If we further elaborate the data, maximum 149 cases in 2017 are still to be solved by the police, followed by 116 in 2018.

Apart from this, RTI activist Rohit Sabharwal also obtained information under the RTI Act regarding the robbery and dacoity cases since 2010.

As per the facts supplied by the police, total 188 cases of robbery and dacoity were reported since 2010 of which 159 were solved. Notably, there is zero pendency of such cases in 2012 and 2013 when 21 and 13 cases were reported.