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The police-public meet organised at Cheddanagar temple on August 6, was an open forum to enable an interactive session between the law abiding citizens and those responsible for maintaining law and order. This unique meet, probably the first of its kind in our suburb, was organised jointly the Subramania Samaj along with Vedanth Welfare Foundation.

DCP Dilip Sawant discusses various issues like increasing chain snatching incidents with the citizens

Members of Cheddanagar Residents Welfare Association (CRWA) also joined hands with them to discuss the safety and security in the areas in and around Cheddanagar.

The meeting on Thursday was attended by Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Dilip Sawant, Shivajirao N, senior inspector from Tilaknagar police station, A S Peerzade, senior inspector of crime branch.

S Ravindranath from Vedanth Welfare Foundation, speaking to CG Plus, stated, “Our area has witnessed several cases of theft and chain snatching, so we met Rakesh Maria (commissioner of police, crime) in this regard. After this it was decided to hold an open forum where the local police and public can interact.”

Some suggestions discussed during the meet

• More such meetings must be held at regular intervals
• Survey of the area should be conducted, particularly of senior citizens living alone
• Residents should check the backgrounds of watchmen and house help before employing them in homes

“We must think of sustainable development, make use of renewable energy and leave something good for the future generations,” stated S R Kale, a renowned technocrat with over 25 years of experience. Kale was the guest of honour during the felicitation ceremony held at Cheddanagar Education Society’s Modern English school by Intel company on Saturday, June 11.

Modern School students discussed their experiences on the occasion

As the subject on conservation of resources was vast, Kale promised to come back to deliver a special lecture for the benefit of the students. Interestingly, the students of this school seem to be scientifically inclined because for the last four consecutive years, they have participated and won laurels both at the national and international levels during the annual science fairs conducted by Intel namely the IRIS (Initiative for Research and Innovation in Science) and ISEF (International Science and Engineering Fair).

“ISEF is an international science fair which attracts participants from various countries. This year our school was the only one to qualify from the city. Our winners this year were Ritika Sangameshwaran and Divya Kohtari. They presented their project from May 8-16 at Reno in Nevada,” informed Sitalaxmi Parameshwaran, the school principal while speaking to CG Plus after the felicitation ceremony.

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Young students from Cheddanagar took part in a cleanliness drive

Around 20 school and college students residing in and around Cheddanagar took part in a cleanliness drive on Saturday, May 30.

Explaining the purpose of this unique drive S Ravindranath, from Vedant Welfare Foundation stated, “We organised this drive to instill values like the importance of cleanliness among the younger generation. Usually cleanliness is limited to one’s home but we extended this concept to the locality level. Clean surroundings encourage healthy living.”

ollege students like Chandrashekar, Vivek Pandey and Viro Chand from Swami Vivekanda college took part in this drive. Chandrashekar informed, “Our college has a programme known as Additional Credit Programme in which we are required to work with any NGO for 30 hours. Later we are awarded certificates.

I have lived in Chedda Nagar for almost 10 years between 1980 to 1990. Though quite young, i can still remember most of the good and bad times that I had then. From my distinctly Weak memory, I can still remember Chedda Nagr being in news for its frequent chain snatching incidents then.

The modus operandi would simply be… spot an aunty or paati, walking by herself … just ride past her on a motorbike… void her off her mangalsutra or anything golden for that matter … not much seems to have changed. Oh yeah! And I quite distinctly remember an incident once when the frustrated thieves turned around threw their priced earning back at the victim, when they found they had only risked snatching a piece of imitation jewelery…

Read full story in Chembur Ghatkopar Plus by Vibha Singh posted on Saturday, April 25, 2009 Chain snatching cases on rise

“No clues.” That’s the answer the police officials investigating chain snatching and jewellery thefts cases in Chembur and Tilak Nagar police station give to the victims.

Surendra Menon is angry with the police for not helping him when he went to register a complaint

There have been nearly 24 cases in the past four months in the area where residents have been robbed of their gold jewellery. A rise in chain-snatching and gold jewellery theft in the area, particularly in Chedda Nagar and areas around Diamond Garden over the last three months, is putting the police’s skill to test.

Solving such cases is proving to be a big challenge for them as first-time offenders are said to be involved in many of the incidents. Says a senior police officer from Chembur, “The modus operandi is different in the different cases. However, in all the cases it is the gold jewellery and senior citizens who are being targeted.”…

I used to live in Chedda Nagar for  quite a few years during my school days.  I distincly remember , then there used to be regular chain snatching incidents, where the modus operandi would be very simple “Surprise, Blind and Snatch” … Surprise your target victim  (probably to  get their eyes wide open), throw a good portion of red hot chilli powder on their face   and then simply snatch their belongings … usually its the  thick fat mangal  sutra most South Indian women wear ….

Not much or just nothing seems to have changed in Chedda Nagar since 20 years. It happened just yeaterday too … a thief shocks senior citizen with chilli powder, snatches chain as it said in TOI ….

When 64-year-old Rajamma Janardhan went for her daily darshan to the local temple, little did she suspect the fate that awaited her. On Thursday evening, a miscreant threw a fistful of chilli powder at the senior citizen, punched her in the face and snatched her chain. The shocked Janardhan raised an alarm but could do little to stop the thief… Read more in TOI