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Thirty-eight-year-old Kiranmayi was driving back home after dropping her child at a tuition centre in Neredmet. She did not notice two motorcycle-borne miscreants following her and within seconds, her gold chain was yanked away from her and they sped away.

“It was shocking. It was my ‘mangalsutra', and apart from financial loss, emotionally it was very tough to recover from such incidents,” recalls Kiranmayi. It's become a regular occurrence with rampant chain snatching incidents being reported at different localities in the city.

Offenders usually target women walking alone in colonies. Riding a bike, they arrive from nowhere and snatch gold chains and even before the victim recovers, they escape.

Police earlier considered these incidents as sporadic and failed to address the issue initially. With chain snatchers striking regularly and widespread criticism from all quarters, they sketched a few strategies and conducted awareness programmes. Installation of “chain snatchings zone” boards and interaction programmes with resident welfare associations are a few to name.

Despite these initiatives, things continued to remain same as chain snatchings incidents increased considerably. The Hyderabad commissionerate areas recorded 578 cases in 2009 and property worth over Rs. 42 lakh was lost. In 2010, the cases increased to 714 and 826 cases were reported last year. In 2012, already 89 cases have been reported.

And like a coin having two sides, here too there are two dimensions. In addition to crime perspective, involvement of youngsters and students aged between 20 and 30 in these crimes is another. Blame it on lifestyle or attitude, of late many youngsters are indulging in chain snatchings crimes and police records stand a testimony to this.

But what makes youngsters involve in such activities? It is nothing but craze to make fast money. Ten grams of gold now costs about Rs. 30,000. Snatchers sell the stolen ornaments to gold merchants or pawn brokers and make few thousands in a jiffy. This is what drives many into these crimes, DCP (North) Ch. Srikanth.

It's the change in lifestyle and the need for money that influence youngsters. The advent of pub culture, zeal to own latest gadgets, passion to drive super bikes and in few cases, offenders even wanted to host grand parties to their girl friends. These are few reasons to explain, and more importantly, drug consumption and addiction is another, he says.

Unfortunately, it is not confined to a particular section of society. Youngsters from high income, middle and low income groups are involved in these crimes. While, the need to consume liquor and drugs forces those from high income groups, those from middle income groups do it for buying gadgets and smart phones, he explainsAccording to police, one of the major contributing factors for the rise in chain snatchings is the ease with which gold can be converted into money. Many gold finance companies have come up and these companies offer money within minutes.