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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Midnight dacoity, daytime robbery

Staff Reporter

Robbers escape on being chased by cops

HYDERABAD: The spree of property offences on city outskirts is continuing even as the Cyberabad police have stepped up patrolling following the brutal murder of three persons of a family in L.B. Nagar recently.

While a dacoit gang looted a house in Kompally late on Tuesday midnight, two youngsters robbed a couple of five tolas gold at knifepoint in Dundigal on Wednesday afternoon. Five persons, all in their late twenties, surrounded a house under construction near Kompally on the Nizamabad highway a little after midnight. They tied down the watchman with ropes threatening to kill him if he raised an alarm.

Later, they went to a nearby house belonging to a grape garden owner, D. Raivinder Reddy, and broke open the main door on the ground floor where Reddy's parents -Chandra Reddy and Ramulamma- were asleep. While one guarded the main entrance, the remaining collected jewellery from Ramulamma at knifepoint.

Awakened by the noise, Ravinder Reddy rushed down from the first floor only to return to his bedroom on seeing the knife-wielding dacoits. The bandits followed him and broke open the door with boulders and a pestle. Even as they were collecting jewellery from his wife, Aruna, two patrolling constables of Petbashirabad police reached the house.

"They were going to sign in the pointbook kept in a house near Ravinder's residence and grew suspicious as the lights were on and the main door was open," the SI, Srinath Reddy, said. One of the offenders waiting at the entrance alerted his accomplices.

All of them jumped down the compound wall and disappeared into the darkness after being chased by the constables for some distance.

In a separate incident, two robbers relieved a businessman, Narsimha Reddy, 30, and his wife, Padma, 21, of jewellery at Dundigal 12 hours later. The couple was on its way from Salegudem to Patancheru on a motorcycle around 1 p.m.

The offenders intercepted them when they reached a deserted place and sped away after snatching the ornaments at knifepoint, the Dundigal Inspector, K. Rambhupal Rao, said.

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