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Tuesday, Jul 11, 2006

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BMTC employee arrested on charges of cheating

Staff Reporter

He did not deposit money collected after selling monthly passes

BANGALORE: The Bangalore police, with the help of their Mysore counterparts, have arrested a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) conductor, who allegedly made away with Rs. 5.55 lakh after selling monthly passes and had cheated the BMTC.

The Vijayanagar police, with the assistance of the V.V. Puram police in Mysore, on Sunday arrested Manjunath (44), a driver-cum-conductor attached to the Deepanajalinagar depot.

The police said Manjunath, a resident of Cauvery Layout in Vijayanagar, obtained monthly passes worth Rs. 5.55 lakh from the depot on April 27 and 28. After selling the passes, he had not deposited the money with the BMTC and had been at large, they said. The IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court has remanded him in judicial custody till July 17.

Priest arrested

The Jayanagar police have arrested Ramalingaiah (57), priest of the Thibbamma Devi temple in Sakamma Garden in 6th Block, Jayanagar, and his son Harish Kumar (21), who had allegedly cheated a devotee of Rs. 5 lakh and gold ornaments.

The police said the accused had taken Rs. 5 lakh and gold ornaments from Chandrashekara Raju and his wife for performing a special puja. The priest and his son had promised the couple that the Goddess would bless them with a child if they performed the puja.

Caught

An alert public caught a man who allegedly snatched a gold chain worth Rs. 10,000 from Varsha Naik (22) at the Kempegowda bus stand on Saturday.

Police said that the man snatched the chain from Varsha while she was waiting for a bus on platform no. 13. After Varsha raised an alarm, the public caught the man and handed him over to the police. He was identified as Adinarayana (28) of Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh, police said.

Recovered

The Madivala police have arrested three persons on charges of chain snatching and robbery and recovered from them gold ornaments and mobile phones worth Rs. 90,000.

The names of the arrested were given as Harish (20) of Yelechenahalli and Umesh (25) and Kannan (29), residents of Begur.

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