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BANGALORE, FEB. 19. An old woman was burnt alive when her hut in Subramanyapura police station limits caught fire early on Saturday. The police said that Ammayyamma was staying alone in the hut in Vasanthapura slum. The police suspect that a kerosene lamp she had lit caused the fire. After her husband, Nallappa, died, Ammayyamma made a living by begging in Vasanthapura and surrounding areas. Her only daughter, Bhagyamma, stays separately, the police said. The Subramanyapura police have registered a case.
Robbed
Two men who came in an autorickshaw waylaid Sunil Shetty and robbed him of a mobile phone and Rs. 800 in Subramanyanagar police station limits on Friday. The police said that around 10 p.m. when Shetty was walking towards his house in 3rd Block, Rajajinagar, the two men who came in an autorickshaw stopped him saying that he had teased a woman. As he was talking to them, the two threatened him with a knife and robbed him of his cellphone and cash. The Subramanyanagar police have registered a case.
Raids conducted
The Central Crime Branch officials on Friday raided a lottery centre near Konanakunte Cross on Kanakapura Road and a skill games joint on Sampige Road in Malleswaram and arrested 15 people on charges of gambling. They seized stake money of Rs. 3,700 from the lottery shop, where "matka" betting was on, and Rs. 4,000 from the skill games joint, the police said.
Recovered
The Banaswadi police arrested five persons on charges of theft and recovered from them 26 copper panels of solar heaters worth Rs. 2.5 lakhs. The names of the arrested were given as Manjunath (18), Arun (18), Kumar (18) and Munikrishna (18), all residents of OMBR Layout and a juvenile from Banaswadi. The accused were arrested when they were trying to sell the copper panels at a scrap metal shop, the police said. They had allegedly stolen the panels fitted to solar heaters from 27 houses in Banaswadi, Ramamurthynagar and Hennur police station limits. Three of their accomplices, Shiva, Ramanjini and Subbu, are at large, the police said.
Arrested
The Commercial Street police on Friday arrested M.K. Singh alias Ajith Kumar Singh (24), a MCA graduate and a native of Uttar Pradesh, on charges of cheating and recovered from him a car, a laptop, and two handycams, together worth Rs. 5.25 lakhs. Singh had allegedly cheated a Korean national of a camera, a local businessman of a laptop and a private company official of Rs. 2.50 lakhs, the police said. He was earlier arrested by the Delhi police in a car theft case and by Peenya, Vijayanagar, Kadugondanahalli and Kalasipalya police in cheating cases, the police said.
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