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Sunday, Sep 25, 2005

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Bank officer robbed of cash, wristwatch

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Two autorickshaw drivers and their accomplice on Friday night robbed a bank official of Rs. 3,500 in cash and a wristwatch at knifepoint on Mysore Road flyover.

The police said Anil Kumar of Kerala, who works as a probationary officer at Canara Bank's overseas branch at Trinity Circle on Mahatma Gandhi Road, boarded an autorickshaw near the bank to reach his house at Guddadahalli on Mysore Road.

On reaching City Market around 10.30 p.m., the driver told Kumar that he had run out of fuel and made him get into another autorickshaw.

The driver too got into the same autorickshaw saying that he would get a gas cylinder, the police said.

After travelling some distance on the flyover, the two drivers and their accomplice, who was also in the vehicle, threatened Kumar with a knife and robbed him of the cash and wristwatch, the police said.

Kumar walked to the New Tharagupet police station to lodge a complaint.

But the policemen there refused to register the complaint citing jurisdictional problems.

He then went to the Silver Jubilee Park police station and lodged a complaint.

Later, the Silver Jubilee park police transferred the case to the New Tharagupet police, sources in the police said.

Youth caught

Members of the public on Saturday chased and caught a youth who allegedly snatched a mobile phone from a construction company employee in Subramanyapura police station limits.

The police said that around 11 a.m. the youth snatched the mobile phone from Anand, a native of Bihar, while he was speaking on the phone at RBI Layout. Anand and passers-by chased and caught the youth. The police gave his name as Manjunath (22) of Hosur in Tamil Nadu.

Thefts

A youth smashed the windowpanes of a house in Ramamurthynagar police station limits in the early hours of Saturday and made away with a pair of gold bangles and a mobile phone, together worth Rs. 20,000.

The police said the incident occurred around 3 a.m. at the house of Anbarasan in M.E. Nagar.

The valuables were kept on the windowsill, the police said. The Ramamurthynagar police have registered a case.

In another incident reported in the early hours of Saturday, a thief put his hands through an open window and snatched a gold chain worth Rs. 20,000 from Jaya Kumar who was asleep at his house on 4th Main, Shakthi Ganapathinagar.

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