Date:03/06/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/06/03/stories/2006060320600300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Ornaments, cash looted from houses

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Armed robbers struck at two houses in Rajarajeshwarinagar police station limits early on Friday and looted gold ornaments, cash and electronic gadgets.

The police said that around 2.30 a.m. three robbers entered Sathyanarayana's house on Channasandra Main Road by breaking open the rear door with crowbars. They threatened Sathyanarayana's wife Suma and daughter Sahana with knives and robbed them of their gold ornaments worth Rs. 25,000. They also made away with Rs. 1,000 in cash from the house.

The police said Sathyanarayana, a retired sub-registrar, was away in Hyderabad when the incident occurred. In the second incident, the robbers entered A.B. Nanjundaswamy's house on Channasandra Main Road around 3 a.m. by breaking open the rear door and decamped with Rs. 5,000 in cash, a mobile phone and a wristwatch. The occupants of the house were asleep at that time, the police said. On a complaint by Nanjundaswamy, an accounts superintendent with the KSRTC, the Rajarajeshwarinagar police have registered a case. Nanjundaswamy's house is situated about 2 km away from that of Sathyanarayana.

Stolen

Thieves made away with Rs. 2.12 lakh in cash and gold ornaments worth Rs. 60,000 from the first floor house of B. Prahangit in Sanjayanagar police station limits early on Friday.

The police said that around 2 a.m. Prahangit's son, who works in a BPO, returned home from work. Prahangit, who opened the door, forgot to close it and went to sleep. When he woke up around 6 a.m. he found that the cash and gold ornaments had been stolen, the police said.

On a complaint by Prahangit, a resident of 4th Main Road, Kempe Gowda Layout, the Sanjayanagar police have registered a case. In a similar incident, thieves took away a laptop worth Rs. 45,000 from Mukesh Nair's flat in Pai Layout in K.R. Puram police station limits on Thursday night.

The police said the thieves entered the house through a door in the balcony that had not been closed. The K.R. Puram police have registered a case.