Chain snatchers will be booked under Goonda Act

To bring down crime rates in Bangalore, the city police are planning to detain chain-snatchers under the provision of the Karnataka Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Gamblers, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Slum Grabbers Act, 1985, widely known as the Goonda Act.
Joint commissioner of police (crime), Alok Kumar, said, “We will book chain snatchers and robbers under the Act.”
Manjunath alias Pulsar Manja, city’s notorious chain snatcher who has more than 30 cases against him, will soon be detained. Once detained, the arrested should spend a whole year in jail, and bail will not be granted for the entire year.