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Women assaulted; jewels and cash taken away

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BANGALORE: Robbers assaulted two women and took away gold ornaments estimated at lakhs of rupees and cash from their houses in two cases reported from Peenya and Malleswaram on Monday.

The police said that around 3 p.m. the robbers knocked on the door of Parvathi's house in 2nd Stage, Peenya. When Parvathi opened the door, they barged into the house and assaulted her. They made away with gold ornaments and a camera, valued at Rs. 2.50 lakh, and cash from the house. The Rajagopalanagar police have registered a case.

In the other incident, two persons assaulted Susheela and made away with cash and gold ornaments from her house in Malleswaram police station limits.

The police said that around 8 a.m. a man and a woman came to Susheela's house on 11th Cross, Malleswaram, asking for a job. While she was talking to them they assaulted her, barged into the house and took away cash and jewellery, the police said. The Malleswaram police have registered a case.

Murdered

An autorickshaw driver was stabbed to death in Subramanyapura police station limits in the early hours of Tuesday.

The dead was identified as Nagaraj (35), a resident of Sunkadakatte. Nagaraj's body was found near his autorickshaw on Avalahalli Ring Road. He had been stabbed in the chest and legs. The murder is suspected to have taken place between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.

Nagaraj had reportedly deserted his wife Rangamma three years ago and was having an affair with another woman. The police suspected that relatives of one of these women might have murdered him. The Subramanyapura police have registered a case.

Stolen

A thief stole gold ornaments valued at Rs. 1 lakh through an open window at a software engineer's house in Viveknagar police station limits on Monday. The incident took place at Sudhakar's house on 8th Cross, Viveknagar. Sudhakar's wife had kept her ornaments on a table near the window. Following a power shutdown, the couple locked the house around 8 p.m. and went out for dinner. When they returned, they found the jewellery missing, the police said.

Assaulted

Following a land dispute, three men attacked Ramu with choppers and robbed him of a mobile phone and cash in Yeshwanthpur police station limits on Monday.

Ramu is in hospital, the police said. The Yeshwanthpur police have registered a case of attempt to murder and are on the lookout for the accused.

Student dies

N.T. Raju (20), a BBM student and a resident of RPC Layout, was killed after a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus rammed his motorcycle near Manuvana bus stop in Vijayanagar around 10.30 p.m. on Monday. The Vijayanagar traffic police have seized the bus and arrested the driver Kali Ravi.

Boy drowned

A seven-year-old boy died after he fell into a seven-foot ditch that was filled with water at Reddypalya, coming under HAL police station limits on Sunday. The police gave the name of the victim as Chinmaya. They said that Chinmaya had accompanied his mother to the borewell that was near the ditch. He was playing when he slipped and fell into the ditch and drowned. People, who had gathered there, removed the body from the ditch.

People of Reddypalya and Islampura staged a protest after the incident and again on Monday, demanding compensation for the family.

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