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Bangalore
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BANGALORE, OCT. 6. In a daring robbery, thieves broke into a jewellery shop through a tunnel at Indira Gandhi Circle in J. P. Nagar (Sarakki) Police Station limits on Tuesday night and took away jewellery worth Rs. 3 lakhs. The police said the incident came to light when the owner of Priyanka Jewellery, Sujith, opened his shop on Wednesday. The thieves dug a tunnel from the main road to the shop for about 500 metres and escaped with the booty. This is the second such robbery in two months. A few weeks ago, thieves dug a tunnel through a storm drain into a shop in Girinagar Police Station limits and escaped with articles worth Rs. 1.5 lakh.
Girl robbed
Two youths attacked an 11-year-old girl in Rajagopalanagar Police Station limits and robbed her of gold earrings and silver anklets on Tuesday. They took away gold ornaments worth Rs. 10,000 from the house of Nagaraj, an employee of a garment factory at Annapoorneshwarinagar. When Mr. Nagaraj and his wife, Vijayamma, had gone to work, their niece, Rathna, who had come from Huliyurdurga in Tumkur district to spend her Dasara holidays with them, was alone at home. Two persons knocked on the door around 1 p.m. and when Rathna opened the door, they asked for drinking water. After having water, they enquired with her about who lived in the house and left. They returned 15 minutes later, threatened Rathna with a knife, tied her hands and legs with a sari and relieved her of earrings and anklets. They bolted the door from outside and left, the police said. The Rajagopalanagar police have registered a case.
Chain snatched
A youth snatched a gold chain worth Rs. 35,000 from B.T. Lalitha (54) in Vijayanagar Police Station limits on Tuesday. The police said the incident took place around 7 p.m. at RPC Layout when Lalitha and her husband, Hombaiah, a retired KEB engineer, were returning from a hospital. The Vijayanagar police have registered a case. In another incident, a man snatched a gold chain worth Rs. 10,000 from Shruthi (20), an engineering student, in the Basaveshwaranagar Police Station limits around 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday. The police said the assailant snatched the chain when Shruthi was going home in Karnataka Layout after alighting from a bus at Shankar Math. The Basaveshwaranagar police have registered a case.
House burgled
A burglar broke into the house of Nagaraj, an accountant with a construction company, in Kodandarampura on Tuesday and took away Rs. 45,000. The police said when Mr. Nagaraj returned home from work around 7 p.m., he found that someone had broken into his house. He saw a youth packing gold and silver ornaments kept in a steel cupboard. When Mr. Nagaraj raised an alarm, the youth fled the spot abandoning the ornaments. But Mr. Nagaraj found that the youth had taken away cash, the police said. The Vyalikaval police have registered a case.
Arrested
The Cottonpet Police on Tuesday arrested two persons on a charge of murdering Anees (20), a hawker and a resident of Hosaguddadhahalli. Anees was hacked to death near Shanthala Circle around 10.45 p.m. on September 26. The names of the arrested were given as Siddaraju (24) of Channapatna taluk in Bangalore Rural district and Anil (19) of Koodlu on Hosur Road.
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