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Conmen strike, dupe three women Crime Notes

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BANGALORE: Posing as gold polishers, conmen again struck in the city on Tuesday and duped an elderly woman, her daughter and daughter-in-law of their gold ornaments.

The police said the incident took place around 1.30 p.m. at H.A. Asangi’s flat in Shirke Apartments in Kengeri Satellite Town. Two men convinced Asangi’s wife, daughter and daughter-in-law to give their gold ornaments for polishing.

After the women gave them two gold chains, a pair of earrings and a ring, the duo pretended to put the ornaments in a pressure cooker and added some chemical to it. They told the women to heat the cooker for five minutes. After the duo left, the women opened the cooker and found that the ornaments were missing, the police said. The Kengeri police have registered a case.

Murdered

A 20-year-old man was strangled, allegedly by his roommate, in Vidyaranyapura police station limits on Monday night.

The police gave the name of the dead as Sridhar. He was a carpenter and a native of Sakaleshpur taluk in Hassan district. He was living in a rented room at Kempegowda Nagar in Thindlu.

A fellow carpenter, Ramesh Babu of Chamarajpet, was sharing the room with Sridhar. Around 8.30 p.m. on Monday, the two reportedly quarrelled over a gold chain belonging to Sridhar. In a fit of rage, Babu allegedly strangled Sridhar with his belt and ran away, the police said. The Vidyaranyapura police have registered a case of murder and are on the lookout for Babu.

Woman murdered

In another incident, a young woman was found murdered on the outskirts of the city in Bidadi police station limits in Ramangara district on Tuesday morning.

The police said that after smothering the woman, aged about 20, the assailants had packed her body in a gunny bag and dumped it near the remote Beemanakuppe village on Dodda Aladhamara Road.

Eye witnesses told the police that around 11.30 a.m. two men, who came in a mini goods van, dumped the gunny bag near a farm and sped away. The woman was wearing a red salwar kameez. The Bidadi police have registered a case and are ascertaining the victim’s identity. The body has been sent to Victoria Hospital for autopsy, the police said.

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