Jewellery worth Rs 15.30 lakh seized from arrested woman

The police claimed to have solved more than two dozen cases of chain snatching in and around Thane, after a 27-year-old woman was arrested from Ambivili.
Addressing a news conference here today Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Singhal told newsmen that one Fiza Rahim alias Husain Shaikh, had indulged in chain snatching along with her brothers.
Allegedly, they had targeted women walking on the road by riding a motorbike and snatching away their jewels, the police said.
Crime Unit-I raided Fiza's residence and recovered gold ornaments necklaces weighing 664 gm valued at Rs 15.30 lakh, Singhal said.
Interrogation revealed that her brothers Sadiq Ali Hussain and Mehndi Hussain, with the help of other members of the Irani gang used to indulge in chain snatching in and around Thane.

The police is on the look out for her mother, two brothers as well as other members of the gang, the police officer said, adding that it is being ascertained if more people were involved in the crime.
Allegedly, some years years ago, Fiza and other members of the Irani gang had attacked a police team which had gone to nab the criminals for thefts and chain snatching, the police said.