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Two persons robbed in city

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Sword-wielding robbers struck at a hotel and a businessman's house in the city on Sunday night and made away with Rs. 32,000 in cash, gold jewellery and a mobile phone.

The police said that around 10.30 p.m., after the day's business was over, Santosh, cashier of Acharya Café in 2nd Phase, J.P. Nagar, was counting the cash. Three men, armed with swords, barged into the hotel and robbed Santosh of Rs. 23,000 in cash after threatening him and other employees. The J.P. Nagar police have registered a case.

In another case, four men threatened Venkatesh, a businessman, and his family members with swords and looted Rs. 9,000 in cash, two gold rings and a mobile phone from their house in Vidyaranyapura police station limits. The police said that around 8.30 p.m. some one pressed the calling bell of Venkatesh's house at Nanjappa Layout. When Venkatesh, who was watching television, answered the door, four men rushed into the house. The intruders, who were carrying swords, attacked Venkatesh and threatened his wife and children. They entered a bedroom and looted Rs. 9,000 in cash and two gold rings that were in an almirah. When the robbers tried to snatch gold jewellery from Venkatesh's wife, her children started screaming, forcing the intruders to run away, the police said. The Vidyaranyapura police have registered a case.

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