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Goldsmith’s workshop looted

Special Correspondent

BANGALORE: Burglars struck at a goldsmith’s workshop in Byatarayanapura police station limits on Friday night and looted gold and silver items worth Rs. 5 lakh and Rs. 20,000 in cash.

The police said the incident took place at the workshop on the ground floor of goldsmith Nagaraj’s two storeyed house at Avalahalli, off Mysore Road.

The thieves, who entered the workshop by breaking the main door, made away with 18 kg of silver articles, silver ingots and six pairs of gold earrings and a bracelet. On a complaint by Nagaraj, the Byatarayanapura police have registered a case.

Robbed

Three persons robbed the manager of a gas filling station in Telecom Layout of Rs. 1 lakh in cash on Saturday.

According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) K. V. Sharatchandra, the manager, Kumar Aaradhya, closed the outlet around 9.30 p.m.

He was walking down to the house of the outlet’s owner Manjunath nearby to hand over the cash collected during the day when three persons waylaid 61-year-old Aaradhya and threw chilli powder on him. Before he could realise what had happened, the miscreants stabbed Aaradhya on his left thigh and ran away with the bag containing the cash. Aaradhya was taken to a private hospital, Mr. Sharatchandra said.

The K.P. Agrahara police have registered a case.

Suicides

Nethravati (24), a labourer, committed suicide by immolating herself at her house in Chikkabegur on Hosur Road on Thursday night. Nethravati, a native of Pandavapura taluk in Mandya district, died in a hospital on Friday.

The Electronics City police have registered a case.

In another incident, Ambarish (22), who consumed poison at his house on Wednesday, died in a private hospital on Friday.

Ambarish, a school dropout, was a resident of Belthur village in Kadugodi police station limits on the outskirts of the city.

He took the extreme step after his father admonished him to keep away from bad company and work on the family farm, the police said. The Kadugodi police have registered a case.

Nagesh (46), who had taken an overdose of sleeping pills at his house in Vignananagar on January 7, died in a hospital on Friday.

The police said Nagesh, a dairy employee, had abstained from work for the past one year. The HAL police have registered a case.

Two killed

A vegetable vendor and an engineer were killed in separate road accidents in the city on Saturday.

The police said Narayana Shetty (46) was killed on the spot when a BMTC bus knocked him down near S.M. Circle on Tumkur Road around 5.45 a.m. Shetty, who owned a vegetable shop at T. Dasarahalli, was on his way to buy vegetables from the wholesale market at Yeshwantpur when the accident occurred.

The Peenya traffic police, who have registered a case, are on the lookout for the bus driver who sped away after the accident.

In another incident, Rudresh (35) was killed when his motorcycle overturned after hitting a road hump on Outer Ring Road, off Malgudi dabha, in Airport traffic police station limits around 9 a.m.

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