The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : IT engineer, wife waylaid, robbed

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

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IT engineer, wife waylaid, robbed

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Three men waylaid a software engineer and his wife and robbed them of two mobile phones and Rs. 2,000 in cash in Ashoknagar police station limits on Tuesday night.

The police said that Puneet Srivatsava and his wife were returning to their Austin Town house after watching a movie at a multiplex. Around 11.30 p.m. while the couple was walking on Richmond Road, the armed men robbed them of the phones and cash. The Ashoknagar police have registered a case.

Students robbed

Armed men barged into a house in J.P. Nagar police station limits on Tuesday afternoon and robbed five students of five mobile phones and Rs. 2,500 in cash at knifepoint.

The police said that around 3.30 p.m., three men barged into a house in 1st Phase, J.P. Nagar, which is shared by three students from Assam. The intruders threatened Amarjith Bohra and his roommate Banarjee with a knife and robbed them of mobile phones and cash.

When three of their friends Pinku Sharma, Gautham Sharma and Ajay Kumar Singh came there, one after the other, the robbers threatened them too and relieved them of their mobile phones and cash, the police said. On a complaint by Bohra, the J.P. Nagar police have registered a case.

Photographer murdered

A 31-year-old man was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in Yelahanka police station limits on Wednesday morning. The police gave the name of the dead as Venkatesh, a photographer and a native of Bommasandra in Gauribidanur taluk of Kolar district. Venkatesh had been hit on the head with sharp weapons. A vehicle had run over him and tyre marks were found on his body, which was lying near the L&T unit on Bellary Road in Byatarayanapura, the police said.

The police, who suspected that Venkatesh could have been killed in a road accident, have registered a case of murder. Venkatesh, who worked in a studio in Gandhinagar, was a resident of Byatarayanapura.

Arrested

The Jayanagar police on Tuesday arrested four persons, including two employees of a private firm. The arrested allegedly enacted a robbery and made away with Rs. 15.50 lakh belonging to their employer. The police have recovered Rs. 15 lakh by arresting Lokesh (25) of Kothnur, Shivu of K.R. Puram, Sandeep (29) of B. Narayanapura and Srikanth (29) of Girinagar.

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