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Gang of dacoits nabbed

Staff Reporter

— Photo: K. Murali Kumar

IN POLICE NET: A gang of alleged dacoits being produced at a press conference along with the articles they looted, in Bangalore on Saturday.

BANGALORE: The Viveknagar police have arrested six men who had allegedly attacked four call centre/BPO cab drivers, robbed them of valuables and drove away their vehicles in different parts of the city.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) B.N.S. Reddy told presspersons on Saturday that the arrested were part of a nine-member gang which had committed 11 robberies in Bangalore, Ramanagara, Mysore, Chamarajanagar and Hassan districts. The police have recovered from the arrested men four multi-utility vehicles, gold ornaments and mobile phones, all estimated at Rs. 15 lakh. The police are on the lookout for the three absconding members of the gang. The accused stopped call centre/BPO cabs at night and took a lift. After travelling some distance, they attacked the cab drivers, robbed them of valuables and drove away the vehicles. Using the ATM cards of the victims, the accused had withdrawn money from ATM centres. Four such cases reported from Tilaknagar, HSR Layout and Viveknagar police station limits have been detected with the arrest of the six men, he said.

Besides, the police have solved seven highway robberies that were reported from Channarayapatna in Hassan district, Kollegal in Chamarajanagar district and Thalaghatapura in Ramangara district, Mr. Reddy said.

The arrested were identified as S. Chandrashekar (33), Venkatesh (22), Devaraj (22), M. Shankar (23), A. Ravi Kumar (21) and Javed (23), all residents of Garvebavipalya and neighbouring areas on Hosur Road.

Suicide

Mallikarjun (18), a resident of Ganganagar, committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan at his residence in R.T. Nagar police station limits on Saturday. The police said Mallikarjun was working in a hardware shop on Avenue Road. The reason for the suicide is yet to be ascertained, the police said.

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