Date:12/11/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/11/12/stories/2006111218640300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Jewellery shop burgled

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Burglars struck at a jewellery shop in Byatarayanapura police station limits in the early hours of Saturday and made away with gold ornaments and silver articles, together worth Rs. 5 lakh. The police said Kishore, proprietor of Ambica Jewellers at Bapujinagar, closed the shop around 9.30 p.m. on Friday and went home. His house is on the first floor.

Around 2 a.m. on Saturday, beat policemen woke up Kishore and told him that burglars had broken open the rolling shutters of his shop. Kishore went to the shop and found that the burglars had made away with Rs. 10,000 in cash, 15 kg of silver articles, 300 gm of gold ornaments and mobile phone currency, the police said.

Ganja seized

The Fraser Town sub-division police on Friday arrested two persons on charges of drug peddling and seized from them 1.20 kg of ganja, estimated at Rs. 20,000.

The names of the arrested were given as Mohammed Rafiq (27) and Akbar (32), both residents of Shivajinagar. Their accomplice, Pervez Sultan (28) of Devarajeevanahalli, is at large. The two were arrested from HKP Road in Shivajinagar, the police said.

Arrested

The Anti-Rowdy Squad of the South division arrested six people who allegedly hacked Narasimha Murthy to death in Subramanyapura police station limits on October 30.

The police said the arrested were accomplices of Murthy, against whom there was a history sheet in Girinagar police station. Murthy and his accomplices were into real estate and extortion, the police said.

There was a dispute between Murthy and his accomplices over sharing the ill-gotten money. As Murthy started harassing his accomplices, they murdered him, the police said.