mysuru naveen kumar and his friend shivakumar were pushing a bike which had run out of petrol towards a fuel station in vijayanagar around midnight when three youths came in an auto and intercepted them they youths snatched naveens smartphone and fledhowever naveen did not report the incident that took place on the night of august 30 to city police two days later he got a call from nanjangud mysuru district police enquiring about his smartphone after they nabbed the gang this is when he told the police about the crimelike naveen there are many people who have lost their valuables but did not report to police taking advantage of it robbers continue with their crimes like chainsnatching and pickpocketing creating a sort of fear among residentsnow the city cops are going all out in their efforts to ensure that the city is free from major street crimes like chainsnatching mobilerobbery and pickpocketing ahead of dasara deputy commissioner of police law and order m muthuraj who has the powers of a special magistrate to remand suspects to judicial custody has so far sent nearly two dozen offenders to jail it is being done as a precaution and after recent incidents of robberyin early may chainsnatchers had struck five times in the city within 90 minutes a few persons including medical students had lost their expensive mobile phones to robbers two men had pickpocketed a farmer of his rs 2 lakh at a coffee shop in lashkar police limits but were caught latermuthuraj told toi that some 24 offenders have been sent to judicial custody in the past twothree weeks we have been monitoring their activities and whenever we find their activities suspicious we take action against them he saidthe officers of mysuru city have been assigned the task of keeping an eye on streetcrime offenders operation fast track aimed at controlling bikeborne youths robbing women of their gold chains have been relaunched to keep the offenders at bay this apart the city crime branch personnel along with the staff of every police station have been directed to ensure safety of public from such offenders who have been striking at regular intervals the dcp saidwith gold price skyrocketing to rs 40000 per 10 gram miscreants would try their luck during the festival season targeting women on the streets we request women not to venture out alone in isolated or deserted streets wearingdisplaying jewelleries the dcp said the police have identified a total of 89 checkpoints after a series of chainsnatchings by irani gang members who commit the crime and flee the city these checkpoints have been strengthened besides sending decoys to nab wrongdoers he said