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Convict attempts suicide, dies in hospital Crime notes

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: A 50-year-old man convicted for life died in a hospital where he was admitted following a suicide attempt in the Bangalore Central Prison on Saturday.

According to a prison official, Narayanaswamy tried to hang himself in a bathroom in his barrack on Saturday, reportedly worried over one of his daughters eloping with a man.

The other convicts alerted the prison staff and Narayanaswamy was taken to Victoria Hospital where he died.

Boy drowns

A two-year-old boy of Srinivasanagar, near Sunkadakatte, drowned in a tank at a construction site on Saturday.

The Kamakshipalya police have registered a case.

Conned

The attention of a man was diverted and gold ornaments worth Rs. 4 lakh taken away from his car at Sahakara Nagar in Yelahanka police station limits on Saturday.

According to the police, Vasumathi, a senior accountant in the General Post Office, was returning home after taking ornaments from a bank locker.

On the way back home, they stopped the car and she stepped out to buy grocery.

A person approached her husband, who was in the driver’s seat, and told him that petrol was leaking.

As he turned to check it, the miscreant took the bag containing the jewellery and ran away.

Cash stolen

The windows of a car were broken and Rs. 1.95 lakh taken away near Ryan International School in Marathahalli in Mahadevarapura police station limits on Saturday.

The police said that Venugopal, a builder, had withdrawn Rs. 2 lakh from a bank and gone to his children’s school.

He had taken Rs. 5,000 for paying the school fee and left the remaining amount in the car.

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