Less than a week after a 37-year-old woman fell from an auto and suffered multiple fractures after a biker snatched her bag in Kalyan, bike-borne thieves made off with the bag of MLA and BJP Mumbai president Ashish Shelar's wife in Vakola on December 30.

Vakola police officials said Pratima Shelar, who is an advocate, had hailed an auto at Western Express Highway when the incident happened, and that she was the third victim of the bike rider-pillion rider duo in less than an hour.