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Two women robbed of gold chains crime notes

Special Correspondent

BANGALORE: Two women were robbed of gold chains, together estimated at Rs. 70,000, in separate incidents in the city on Tuesday evening.

The police said that two men, riding a motorcycle, snatched a chain estimated at Rs. 50,000 from Violet (50) while she was walking on the Service Road, off Lingarajapuram flyover, around 3.30 p.m.

On a complaint by Violet, the Banaswadi police have registered a case.

In the other incident, a man snatched a gold chain worth Rs. 20,000 from Prathima in Yelahanka police station limits. The police said that around 4.45 p.m. Prathima, a teacher at a private school on Bellary Road, was returning home in Hunasemaranahalli along with a colleague.

A man came from behind and snatched the chain from Prathima while she was walking on a secluded narrow road abutting the railway tracks. The Yelahanka police have registered a case.

Woman murdered

A woman aged around 30, who is yet to be identified, was found murdered on an agricultural land in Hoskote police station limits in Bangalore Rural district on Tuesday.

Passers-by, who noticed the body in a bush on the field at Varadapur on Malur Road, informed the police.

The assailants had strangled the woman with the pallu of her sari, the police said.

The police are awaiting the autopsy report to confirm their suspicion that the woman could have been raped by her killers.

The Hoskote police have registered a case.

Shopkeeper attacked

A shopkeeper was seriously injured after armed men attacked him in Viveknagar police station limits on Tuesday night.

The police said that around 10 p.m. three men waylaid Manivannan (36) at Ejipura and attacked him with bricks and clubs.

An injured Manivannan has been admitted to a hospital.

He is out of danger.

The Viveknagar police have registered a case and are ascertaining the motive behind the attack.

Killed in accident

The legal advisor of a private company was killed on the spot after a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus rammed his car on Richmond Road, off Trinity Circle, around 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Ulsoor traffic police, who have registered a case, identified the victim as K. Krishna Kumar (42) of Shanthinagar.

Ganja seized

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) staff on Tuesday arrested a man from Andhra Pradesh on charge of drug peddling and seized from him 6.80 kg of ganja, estimated at Rs. 50,000.

The police said that they had arrested Sathya Babu (35) of Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh while he was selling the substance in front of a tea stall near Sunni Circle in J.J. Nagar police station limits.

Dies of burns

Sudha (23), who was being treated in a hospital for burns, died on Tuesday, according to the police.

The police said that Sudha sustained burns when she was trying to light a kerosene stove at her residence on March 14.

Sudha was a resident of Jai Bhima Nagar, Vallipura, Malleswaram.

The Malleswaram police have registered a case in this regard.

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