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Chandigarh The spurt in incidents of snatching in the city has made the Punjab and Haryana high court take note of the menace.
Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL), the high court (HC) bench of justices Ajay Kumar Mittal and AS Grewal has put the Chandigarh administration, UT home secretary and the inspector general of police on notice for March 14.
The petitioner sought directions to the UT to take effective steps to check snatching incidents that he said have assumed alarming proportions last year.
From 161 incidents in 2016, the number reached 238 in 2017. In the first 50 days of this year, as many as 43 snatching incidents have been reported, the petitioner, advocate HC Arora, told court.
