The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Man foils dacoits' bid to loot his house

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Saturday, Jul 16, 2005

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Man foils dacoits' bid to loot his house

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: A man opened fire at a gang of armed dacoits and foiled an attempt to loot his house in Anekal police station limits in Bangalore Rural district early on Friday.

The police said that around 2 a.m. the dacoits struck at the farmhouse of Ramaiah, an agriculturist and owner of a tiles factory, on the outskirts of Anekal. Ramaiah and his son, Sathyanarayana, were woken up as the dacoits were trying to cut the window grills.

When they could not cut the grills, the dacoits attempted to break open the rear door of the house. Ramaiah opened fire at the dacoits through an open window. After the dacoits ran away, Ramaiah and Sathyanarayana went to the backyard of their house and found bloodstains on the ground in the cowshed.

The police suspect at least one of the dacoits could have been injured after being hit by a bullet.

The Anekal police have registered a case.

Woman murdered

A 35-year-old woman was found murdered at her house in Bovi Colony in MICO Layout police station limits on Friday.

The police said Kempamma, a labourer, was clubbed to death. Her neighbours told the police that a man aged around 25 had come to her house on Thursday night.

On Friday morning, the neighbours had seen Kempamma quarrelling with him. The police suspect the youth could have murdered her.

Kempamma was staying in Bovi Colony for the past four months, the police said.

The MICO Layout police have registered a case.

Fake currency seized

The Upparpet police arrested seven persons on charges of circulating fake currency notes and seized from them counterfeit notes worth Rs. 86,900.

On a tip-off, the police arrested the accused from Subedar Chatram Road in Gandhinagar and seized from them fake currency notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 100 denominations.

Their names were given as Muniyappa (42) of Malur taluk in Kolar district, R. Narayanaswamy (35) of Marathalli, Vijay Kumar (27) of Airport Road, Akram (29) of Annasandrapalya, Lawrence (37) of Jeevanbimanagar, K. Dinesh (22) of Kariyammana Agrahara and Max Manson (36) of Anekal.

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