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Three robbed of gold chains, cash

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Four men waylaid three students and robbed them of two gold chains, three mobile phones and cash in Koramangala police station limits on Wednesday.

The police said that around 11.30 p.m. Vijay Agarwal and two of his friends, all first year BBM students of Christ College, were walking towards their flat in 4th Block, Koramangala, after dinner at a hotel.

Four men, who arrived there by an autorickshaw, waylaid them, threatened them with knives and robbed them of the gold chains, mobile phones and Rs. 800 in cash, the police said.

The three students are natives of Mumbai. The Koramangala police have registered a case.

Chain snatched

Two youths in an autorickshaw snatched a gold chain worth Rs. 25,000 from a woman in Hanumanthanagar police station limits on Thursday.

The police said that around 1.15 p.m. the youths snatched the chain from Nagarathana, a resident of Basappa Layout, when she was walking towards Lakshmipura in Kempe Gowda Nagar. The Hanumanthanagar police have registered a case.

Burgled

Thieves broke into two houses on Tuesday and made away with gold ornaments and electronic goods, together worth Rs. 85,000. The thieves removed an exhaust fan in the kitchen and entered the house of Gauri Lankesh, editor of a Kannada weekly, in Ideal Homes Township in Rajarajeshwari Nagar.

They decamped with a pair of gold bangles and earrings she had kept on the dressing table and a DVD player, the police said. The theft is said to have taken place between 11 a.m. and 11.30 p.m.

In the other incident, thieves made away with gold ornaments and electronic goods worth Rs. 50,000 from the house of Abrar Abdul in HSR Layout. Abdul, a private company employee, who returned home from work at 8.30 p.m. found that his house was burgled, the police said.

DVDs seized

The Upparpet police on Wednesday raided three shops at National Market in Gandhinagar and seized pirated DVDs, VCDs and MP3s, together worth Rs. 10 lakhs.

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