In July last year, when the Mumbai Police arrested one of the city's most notorious gang of robbers — the Highway gang — that disguised themselves as delivery boys for pizza joints and snatched chains of unsuspecting people on the Western Urban Road, they had made a major dent in the chain-snatching ring. The gang, which included Jafar Deshmukh, 38, alias Chikna and two others, had been active for over a year, and were connected with at least 123 incidents of chain snatching across the city. Yet, despite their unique modus operandi, which involved conducting a recce of the area to check for any police nakabandis and changing bike plate numbers, they failed to mislead the cops for too long.