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TopicSnatching cases

Topic: Snatching cases

What’s worse than losing your phone? Finding it

Once you have filed an FIR and the police find your snatched phone, the device becomes a case property — a part of a criminal trial— and you have to go through a legal process to reclaim it.

Woman falls off moving auto in Gurugram; sustains injuries resisting mobile snatcher

'Gurugram is a very unsafe city. I was lucky no other vehicle was behind the auto otherwise I would have been crushed,' the woman said.

Delhi Police considers separate snatching law after Adarsh Nagar murder, to send proposal soon

At present, snatching cases are registered by combining two IPC sections and the offender is given a maximum punishment of 3 years for theft and 2 years for use of criminal force.

Delhi Police detain 3 people for ‘over 100 cases’ of snatching

Snatching cases have emerged as a major menace in Delhi. Only recently, a journalist sustained several injuries when she fell from an auto during a snatching bid.

Delhi Police claims 29% drop in snatching cases — but that’s not the real picture

From January to September this year, Delhi has seen 4,516 cases of snatching, according to a report released by Delhi Police last week.

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Bangladesh’s economic crisis is a cautionary tale. For India too

For India, this is not an opportunity for schadenfreude but rather a reflection of shared responsibility. It's what happens when the governance framework underpinning economic growth is weakened.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.