The steel city on Sunday night witnessed two separate incidents of snatching and firing, leading to the police starting an intensive search operation.

The first incident took place at Kadma around 8.30 pm when unidentified youths snatched a handbag from a girl who was returning home at Ranikudar from Bistupur.

Two bike-borne youths snatched the handbag which contained Rs 4,000 cash and some documents when she was walking through the Dhobi Ghat area.

The youths also assaulted the girl while snatching her cell phone.

Local residents and parents of the victim assembled at the spot soon after the incident.

In the second incident, bike-borne criminals swooped on a businessman's wife Nisha Nagelia at Baradwari at around 9.30 pm and took away the gold chain she was wearing. The cost of the gold chain was estimated to be around Rs 4 lakh.

The wife of Kishore Nagelia was returning home with her relatives on foot after attending a wedding party at the nearby Hotel Ganga Regency.

By the time the relatives could raise an alarm the culprits fled the spot.

On getting information, Sitaramdera police reached the spot and started scanning the CCTV footages.

The police also started an intensive search operation but failed to get any breakthrough till today afternoon.

The third incident of crime took place at the Nehru Colony in Golmuri at around 10 pm where unidentified youths resorted to indiscriminate firing at the house of one local Congress leader Rahul Chhabra.

No one was injured in the incident. Police sources said the incident was an outcome of a dispute between the Congress leader and a local builder.

Police recovered empty cartridges from the spot of the firing incident and started a search operation.

A strong resentment prevails among the local residents and business community over the rising crime graph of Jamshedpur.

The police have so far failed to solve the Rs 32 lakh loot case of Bistupur which took place near the Canara Bank last week.

The cops have also failed to crack the recent Rs 10 lakh gold loot incident of Sakchi though search operations and raids are on.

President of the Singhbhum Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( SCCI ) Vijay Anand Moonka who went to the spot of snatching at Baradwari last night said, " The rising incidents of crime is a serious issue and an indication of deteriorating law and order situation in the steel city. We had given an ultimatum to the police for arresting the culprits involved in the Rs 32 lakh loot case of Bistupur but the culprits are still evading arrest. "

According to Moonka, a sense of fear and insecurity is prevailing among the local residents and business community over the recent incidents of crime.