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Rs. 5 lakh worth cellphones looted from shop

Staff Reporter

INVESTIGATION: Police searching for clues at the showroom in Rajajinagar where mobile phones were stolen. — Photo: K. Gopinathan

BANGALORE: Burglars struck at a mobile phone showroom in Magadi Road police station limits on Sunday night and looted handsets worth Rs. 5 lakh.

The police said the thieves entered the showroom in VI Block, Rajajinagar, by breaking open the rolling shutters. On a complaint by Sunil, the proprietor of the showroom Prakash Tele Links, the Magadi Road police have registered a case.

Salespersons duped

Posing as customers, three persons on Sunday diverted the attention of salespersons at a jewellery shop in Shivajinagar and made away with gold ornaments worth Rs. 1 lakh.

The police said that around 3 p.m. two men and a woman came to Uttam Jewellers on Jain Temple Street. When salespersons were showing them the ornaments, they diverted their attention and made away with the jewellery. The Shivajinagar police have registered a case.

House burgled

Burglars made away with gold ornaments worth Rs. 1 lakh, a mobile phone and Rs. 2,000 from a house in R.T. Nagar police station limits in the early hours of Monday.

The police said the burglars struck at Somesh's house in 2nd Block, R.T. Nagar, around 4 a.m. when he and his family members were asleep. Around 4.30 a.m. Somesh's daughter woke up. On seeing her, the intruders ran away.

Run over

Anbazagan (35), a labourer, was killed after he was run over by a lorry at mango market in Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee yard in Yelahanka traffic police station limits on Sunday night. He was sleeping at the market yard. The Yelahanka traffic police have registered a case. In another incident, an unidentified pedestrian aged around 30, was killed on the spot when a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus knocked him down near Elite Circle in Majestic area around 1.45 p.m. on Sunday.

Arrested

The High Grounds police have arrested two persons who had allegedly tried to withdraw Rs. 70,000 from the ICICI Bank's Kumara Park branch using a stolen cheque.

The arrested were identified as Tabrez Mulla alias Tippu (26) of Rajajinagar and an employee of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, and Saklesh alias Suresh (22) of Yelechenahalli and an employee in personal loan division of the ICICI Bank, the police said.

The police said that a few days ago Tabrez had been to the Domlur house of Shiva Kumar, an engineer, to persuade him to invest in mutual funds and had allegedly purloined a blank cheque from his house.

Later, Tabrez and Saklesh tried to withdraw money from ICICI Bank's Kumara Krupa branch using the stolen cheque. However, the bank staff smelled a rat and alerted the Cubbon Park police, who arrested the duo on Saturday.

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