Date:07/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/03/07/stories/2006030721160300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Cash, mobile phone currency stolen

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Thieves broke into a medical shop and an adjoining bakery in Yelahanka police station limits in the early hours of Monday and made away with cash, mobile phone currency and other articles.

Police said that the thieves broke the rolling shutters and entered the medical shop and the bakery at Ramaiah Complex near Santhe Circle on Bellary Road in Yelahanka.

They reportedly took away Rs. 18,000 and bakery products from the bakery owned by Kannan and cash and mobile currency from the medical shop belonging to Anantharam. They also attempted to loot a textiles shop in the commercial complex, the police said. The Yelahanka police have registered a case.

House burgled

Burglars struck at Tejaswini's house in J.C. Nagar police station limits on Sunday and decamped with Rs. 10,000 and gold ornaments worth Rs. 15,000.

Police said the incident took place when Tejaswini, a resident of 18th Cross, J.C. Nagar Main Road, was away from her house. The J.C. Nagar police have registered a case.

Sandalwood tree felled

Thieves felled a sandalwood tree and attempted to take away the logs from the compound of Parthasarathy's house in Basaveshwaranagar police station limits in the early hours of Monday.

Police said that around 1 a.m. the thieves latched from outside the door of Parthasarathy's house in Gruhalakshmi Layout and felled the sandalwood tree. When the tree fell with a thud, Parthasarathy switched on the light. The thieves left the tree and ran away.

Gutted

About 10 computers were damaged in a fire that broke out in the Government Science College on Monday.

The police said that around 7 a.m., security guards noticed the fire in the Computer Science laboratory of the college on Nrupathunga Road. An electric short circuit is suspected to have caused the fire. The Ulsoor Gate police have registered a case.

Huge quantity of plastic was destroyed in a fire at a plastic goods factory on Mysore Road in Byatarayanapura police station limits on Monday. Two fire tenders put out the fire that broke out around 4 a.m., the police said.

Suicide

Damodaran (35) committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in Bhavaninagar in Banashankari police station limits on Sunday night. The reason for the suicide is not known, the police said.