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BANGALORE, NOV. 12. A six-member gang kidnapped Krishna, driver of a multi-utility vehicle, from Viveknagar police station limits early on Thursday, assaulted him and robbed him of Rs. 500 and a mobile phone. The also took away the vehicle. According to the police, Krishna was returning to his house at Hosaguddadhahalli after dropping the employees of a call centre at their houses. Around 2 a.m., six armed men waylaid him on Koramangala Ring Road. Four of them got into his vehicle and made him drive on the Chennai highway. Two others followed the vehicle on a motorcycle. After reaching an isolated area in the Kolar Rural police station limits, they assaulted Krishna and relieved him of the cash and the mobile phone. They pushed him out of the vehicle and drove away, the police said. Krishna returned to Bangalore on Thursday evening and lodged a complaint with the police. The Viveknagar police have registered a case.
Woman robbed
A housewife was robbed of Rs. 70,000 and gold ornaments worth Rs. 1.50 lakhs allegedly by three employees of her husband in Ashoknagar police station limits on Thursday. The police said that Adil Khan, Aleem Khan and Mushtaq were employees of Sadiq Hussain, a caterer. On Thursday evening, when Hussain went to his hotel, his wife, Shahid Taj, was alone at home. The three employees allegedly tried to strangle her and she pretended she was dead, the police said. The three men made away with the cash and gold ornaments that were in the house. Before fleeing, they bolted the door from outside. Taj immediately raised an alarm and some boys who were bursting crackers near her house caught Mushtaq. Adil Khan and Aleem Khan, who are brothers and have come from Orissa, managed to escape with the booty, the police said. The Ashoknagar police have registered a case.
Businessman freed
The Jayanagar police on Wednesday night arrested eight persons who had allegedly kidnapped a businessman, Surendranath alias Suresh (33), and rescued him from a hotel at Arsikere in Hassan district. The police gave the names of the arrested persons as Ashok (23), Guru Prasad (32), Preethivardhan (34), Shashidhar (24), Suresh Babu (24), Manjunath (27), Umesh (25) and Ramu (35). The accused were employed at J.P. Distributors, a private firm in Hassan. Surendranath's former employers, Shantharam and Gopal, who owed Rs. 30 lakhs to J.P. Distributors were reportedly untraceable for the past one year. To trace Shantharam and Gopal, the accused had allegedly kidnapped Surendranath, who owns an imitation jewellery shop at 4th Block, Jayanagar, the police said. Shantharam and Gopal were wholesale liquor distributors and had suffered heavy losses in their business, the police said.
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