Snatching incidents have become an everyday menace for the Delhi Police, which has failed to curb it despite a number of dedicated special initiatives against the street crime. On Saturday evening, a 24-year-old engineering student was killed when he came under the attack of a snatching gang of four men, who were armed with sharp knives. Apart from these, 1,02,954 thefts were also registered, which has a daily average of 308, more than 10 thefts an hour. Put together, 13 incidents of snatching and thefts take place in the Capital every hour. In September last year, Ukraine's ambassador to Delhi, Dr Igor Polikha's phone was snatched while he was clicking pictures near the Red Fort.

Source: dna January 15, 2018 00:22 UTC