Cop’s wife, daughter fall prey to two snatchers in Jagraon

The wife and daughter of assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Harjeet Singh, posted with the Sadak Suraksha Force (SSF), were allegedly robbed of their purse late on Saturday evening. The incident occurred near Sherpur Road in Jagraon on Saturday when the woman and her daughter were commuting on a scooter. Masked men on a bike, without a registration number plate, snatched the purse from the pillion rider and fled the scene.

The entire incident was captured on CCTV cameras installed nearby. The footage showed that the miscreants had been following the scooter for some time. They stopped briefly due to the crowd. Once the road cleared, they committed the crime and sped away.

On receiving information, a police team from the bus stand outpost reached the scene and began examining the CCTV footage.

The police said said the stolen purse contained around Rs 25,000, two mobile phones and some important documents. The woman and her daughter did not fall from the scooter during the snatching, thus averting a major accident.

Following the incident, concerns about law and order have increased in the city. Local residents have raised police security concerns, asking how the safety of ordinary citizens could be ensured when even a police officer’s family was not safe.

Jagraon City SHO inspector Parminder Singh said after examining the CCTV footage, the police had already got vital clues about the identity of the suspects and a police team would soon arrest them and the snatched valuables would be recovered.