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Three robbed of cash, valuables Crime Notes

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BANGALORE: In quick succession, an armed gang robbed two employees of a garment factory and a businessman of Rs. 18,000, wristwatches worth Rs. 28,000, a mobile phone and gold ornaments in Kengeri police station limits on Thursday night.

The police said that around 9.30 p.m. four men armed with swords and knives waylaid Rakesh and Vinay, both employees of a garment factory, near a petrol station on Bangalore-Mysore highway in Kengeri.

They threatened the two colleagues and robbed Rakesh of Rs. 2,500 and Vinay of Rs. 500 and a mobile phone. Five minutes later, the gang stopped D.R. Chowdary, who owns a watch showroom in Kengeri Satellite Town, while he was riding his motorcycle. They threatened the businessman and robbed him of Rs. 15,000, a gold chain and a ring. They also relieved him of wristwatches worth Rs. 28,000 he had purchased from a wholesale distributor in Chickpet. The robbers, aged around 25, were speaking Kannada and Urdu, the police said. The Kengeri police have registered a case.

In another incident on Thursday night, a maxicab driver and his three accomplices robbed a software engineer of a mobile phone and withdrew Rs. 25,000 cash from an ATM using his debit card.

The police said that around 9.30 p.m., C. Sourav Shah was waiting for an autorickshaw at the Central Silk Board junction to reach his house in Veerabhadranagar. A maxicab driver offered lift to Sourav. After travelling some distance, the driver and his three accomplices who were in the vehicle threatened Sourav and snatched a mobile phone and credit and debit cards from him.

Later, they forcibly obtained his personal identification number (PIN) and withdrew Rs. 25,000 from an ATM centre using his debit card.

The robbers threw Sourav out of the vehicle at a secluded place in J.P. Nagar and sped away. On a complaint by Sourav, the J.P. Nagar police have registered a case.

Burgled

Burglars struck at two houses in K.R. Puram police station limits on Thursday and looted gold ornaments worth Rs. 3 lakh. Incidentally, in both the cases the theft took place when the house owners had been to hospitals, the police said.

According to the police, the burglars made away with 200 gm of gold jewellery and cash from Prasanna Kumar’s house in Shanti Layout in Ramamurthynagar. The theft took place between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

In the other incident, between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. thieves broke open the rear door of Mary’s house in Kalpatharu Layout in Kowdenahalli and decamped with gold ornaments worth Rs. 1 lakh, the police said. The K.R. Puram police have registered separate cases.

Guard arrested

The MICO Layout police arrested the security guard of an apartment on charges of vehicle theft and recovered from him a motorcycle.

The police said Narasimha Murthy (28), who worked as a guard at Vijaya Enclave apartments at Bilekahali on Bannerghatta Road, had stolen the motorcycle from the parking lot of the apartment. He was arrested while he was trying to sell the vehicle, the police said.

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