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Woman beats off chain snatcher Crime notes

BANGALORE: A woman was robbed of her gold chain in Jeevanbimanagar police station limits on Tuesday.

The police said that around 6.30 p.m. Divya Vidyasagar came out of her house, situated near the Aiyappa Temple in HAL town, to dump garbage into a bin. A man, who looked like a rag picker, snatched her gold chain estimated at Rs. 20,000. As she held the chain tightly, the man could get away with only a part of the chain. Although she screamed and chased the robber, no one came to her help, the police said. The Jeevanbimanagar police have registered a case.

Officials of the CID Forest Cell of the State police on Wednesday raided a shop in Shivajinagar the city and seized four pieces of carved ivory, together estimated at Rs. 4 lakh.The police said that on a tip-off they raided a shop dealing in scrap on Jumma Masjid Road and seized the ivory articles. The police arrested the proprietor of the shop, Murthy (52) of Vannarpet in Viveknagar. During interrogation, Murthy claimed that an unidentified person supplied the ivory articles to him, the police said.

The Lokayukta police arrested a police inspector and a constable of Mahalakshmi Layout police station on the charge of accepting bribe from a printer on Wednesday night.

According to Lokayukta Superintendent of Police Rangaswamy Naik, Mahalakshmi Layout police had sealed the printing press owned by Dayashankar on charge of printing pirated books. On a petition by Dayashankar, a city court ordered for the release of the printing press. But the police were reluctant to follow the court order. On Tuesday, police inspector H. Thimappa allegedly demanded from Dayanand Rs. 30,000 and asked him to pay the money to police constable Jayakumar Angadi on Wednesday. In addition, Angadi allegedly demanded Rs. 4,000. On a complaint, Lokayukta police trapped Angadi while he was accepting Rs. 34,000. Later the Lokayukta sleuths arrested Thimappa. Both policemen were produced before a jurisdictional court, which remanded the two to judicial custody.

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