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Jewellery worth Rs. 5 lakh looted from house

Staff Reporter

The robber also took away Rs. 5,000 in cash and two mobile phones

BANGALORE: A robber broke into the house of P.N. Venkatesh, managing director of a tractor manufacturing company, in Banaswadi police station limits in the early hours of Friday and robbed him and his family of gold jewellery worth Rs. 5 lakh, Rs. 5,000 in cash and two mobile phones at gunpoint.

The police said that around 3 a.m. the robber entered Venkatesh's house on 1st Cross, HRBR Layout, Kalyananagar, by breaking open the main door with a crowbar. When he was trying to break open a safe on the ground floor, Venkatesh's brother-in-law Parthiban woke up and resisted him.

The intruder threatened Parthiban with a pistol and a knife and relieved him of Rs. 2,000 in cash, a mobile phone and a wristwatch. Later, he made Parthiban to call Venkatesh and his wife who were sleeping on the first floor.

After robbing Venkatesh's wife of her ornaments, the robber took away jewellery and cash from a safe. The police said that when Venkatesh's wife removed her "mangalasutra" and handed it over to the him, the robber returned it saying: "I am not such a person who relieves a woman of her `mangalasutra.' I have just come out of the jail and I need money."

After the robber left the house, Venkatesh telephoned the police. The Banaswadi police have registered a case.

Software engineer robbed

A three-member gang robbed a software engineer of Rs. 3,000 in cash and a mobile phone in Rajagopalanagar police station limits in the early hours of Friday.

The police said that around 1.30 a.m. Mohammed Zakir was returning to his house in 2nd Stage, Peenya, after dropping a colleague at his house on Magadi Road. While he was going on his motorcycle on Hegganahalli Main Road, three men waylaid Zakir, threatened him with irons rods and knives and robbed him of the cash and the cellphone. The robbers, however, returned the SIM card of the phone to Zakir, the police said. The Rajagopalanagar police have registered a case.

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