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Bag containing jewellery stolen Crime Notes

BANGALORE: Gold jewellery, said to be worth about Rs. 20 lakh, belonging to the wife of a Congress leader was stolen from a car in Whitefield police station limits on Friday.

The police said that around noon, Shyamala, wife of a member of the Bangalore Urban Zilla Panchayat, collected her gold ornaments from the locker of a nationalised bank in Varthur and got into her car.

Later, accompanied by a few women, she went to a relative’s house at Tarahunase village on the outskirts of the city to invite them for the house-warming ceremony of her new residence. When she returned to the car, she found the bag containing gold jewellery missing, the police said. A member of Hoskote Taluk Panchayat was driving the car.

A senior officer told The Hindu that the zilla panchayat member had told them that as he was busy with the preparations for the house-warming ceremony, he would file a complaint later.

Two armed men stabbed an 80-year-old woman and looted Rs. 10,000 and gold ornaments worth Rs. 1 lakh from her house in Hennur police station limits on Thursday. The police said the incident took place between 12.30 p.m. and 1 p.m. at Venugopal’s house on 2nd Cross, Babusapalya when his mother Jagadambal was alone at home. Venugopal is an employee of the Accountant-General’s office.

The armed men entered the house after breaking the main door with a crowbar. After stabbing Jagadambal in her hands, the duo ransacked the house and made away with the cash and valuables, the police said.

The incident came to light around 2.30 p.m. when Venugopal’s daughter returned home from college and found her grandmother, with bleeding injuries on her hand, lying on a sofa.

After she alerted her father, Venugopal came home and lodged a complaint with the police.

In a retaliatory attack, an armed gang hacked to death a 32-year-old man in Electronics City police station limits on Thursday. The police gave the name of the dead as Muniraju, a supervisor at a cement warehouse in Chikkabegur. Around 7.30 p.m., Muniraju was sitting in front of the warehouse talking to his friend Nagaraj. A few days ago Muniraju had attacked a man, Bheemaraj, with a chopper and wounded him severely. After he was discharged from the hospital, Bheemaraj plotted Muniraju’s murder, the police said.

Posing as a devotee, a man cheated the trustee of the Durga Prameshwari temple in Agara of gold ornaments worth Rs. 40,000 on Friday.

The police said that as usual Muni Reddy (80) went to the temple around 8 a.m. When he was about to enter inside, a man came out of the temple and told Reddy that the priest wanted to keep his gold bracelet and rings near the idol for worshipping.

The stranger disappeared after an unsuspecting Reddy gave him his jewellery. On a complaint by Reddy’s son Narasimha Murthy, the HSR Layout police have registered a case.

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