Date:05/06/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/06/05/stories/2007060519190400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Armed men waylay, rob two persons of cash, chains

Staff Reporter

CRIMENOTES

BANGALORE: Armed men waylaid two persons and robbed them of gold chains, mobile phones and cash in separate incidents on Sunday night.

The police said that around 11.30 p.m., three men, who came in an autorickshaw, accosted Bhargav (21) of Gujarat at Goruguntepalya. They threatened him with a knife and robbed him of a gold chain, a mobile phone and Rs. 600 cash.

As it was raining, Bhargav, a student of KLE Pharmacy College here, was taking shelter under a tree when he was mugged. In the other incident, around 8.45 p.m. four men waylaid Shamasunder (29) while he was walking near Yadhava College on Railway Parallel Road in Madhavanagar. They robbed him of a gold chain, a mobile phone, credit and debit cards and Rs. 1,000 at knife-point, the police said.

Murdered

A watchman of a farmhouse on the outskirts of the city was found bludgeoned to death on Sunday night.

The police said the assailants smashed the head of Babu alias Anna Saab (60) with a boulder while he was on duty at Subash's farmhouse at Doddanahalli, near the Dodda Aladamara. The incident came to light on Monday morning.

Suicides

Syed Mukthar (40), a tailor, committed suicide by throwing himself under a train near Kadugondanahalli railway gate on Sunday night. He was a resident of Bharata Matha Layout. Byappanahalli railway police have registered a case.

In another incident, Shashikla (35), who had consumed poison after a tiff with her husband on Friday, died on Sunday night.

Electrocuted

Lokesh (40) was electrocuted at his house in Doddakallasandra on Sunday night.

Dies of burns

Nagamani (18), who was pregnant, died of burns at a hospital on Sunday night. She had suffered burns on Friday night following a stove burst at her house in K.P. Agrahara police station limits, the police said.

Ganja seized

The Upparpet police on Sunday arrested T. Eswaran (39) of Theni district of Tamil Nadu and seized from him 30 kg of ganja, estimated at Rs. 1.8 lakh. The police said Eswaran was arrested at Kempegowda bus station with three bags of contraband he was transporting from Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh to his hometown.

Stabbed

Three miscreants stabbed a railway employee, who was on his way to work, at the Cantonment railway station on Saturday night.

According to C.S. Jayaramaiah, a shunting loco pilot, he was moving towards the end of the platform to board the Tirupati passenger when a youth aged around 20 years stopped him at knife-point. When Jayaramaiah overpowered the youth, two other youth appeared on the scene and stabbed him. Jayaramaiah sustained injuries and is admitted to a government hospital.