Panchkula, May 11 -- Amid the tense situation between India and Pakistan and a blackout imposed by the district administration, two women in Panchkula were robbed in separate chain-snatching incidents on Thursday and Friday.

The latest incident occurred on Friday around 7pm. Harjit Kaur, 50, a resident of Sector 21, reported that when she was walking home from market with her son during the blackout, a motorcycle rider approached from behind and snatched her chain worth Rs.80,000. The rider was wearing a helmet. The Sector-5 police station has registered a case under Section 304 of the BNS.

On Thursday, a similar incident occurred around 7pm. During blackout, two unidentified bikers targeted 62-year-old Urmil Bassi, a retired PGI employ...