Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act invoked against 7 chain-snatchers in Nagpur
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Nagpur police have invoked the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against seven alleged members of an inter-state gang of chain- snatchers, officials said.
The gang was involved in 26 criminal cases in places like Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nashik, Kolhapur, Chandrapur and Dhule in Maharashtra and in Delhi, the Nagpur police said in a release on Monday.
On September 9,two men on a motorcycle allegedly snatched a gold chain of a 60-year-old woman in Lalganj area here, the police said.
The Shanti Nagar police had then registered a case under Indian Penal Code Sections 392 (robbery) and 34 (common intention).