Date:12/06/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/06/12/stories/2007061220610400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Man hacked to death

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: An armed gang chased and hacked to death a man with criminal antecedents, near his house in Chandra Layout police station limits on Sunday.

The police gave his name as Shiva Kumar (21), a college dropout and a resident of Shivanandanagar in Moodalapalya. There was a criminal case against him in the Banashankari police station.

Around 10.30 p.m., six armed men accosted Shiva Kumar at Shivanandanagar. As he started running for cover, they chased him and assaulted him with swords and choppers. Passers-by rushed a severely injured Shiva Kumar to a hospital where he died, the police said. As Shiva Kumar had got into bad company and antagonised some local youths, his father Krishnappa, a mason, had sent him to his cousin's house in Ramamurthynagar. But the rival gang called Shiva Kumar on his mobile and summoned him to Shivanandanagar and killed him, the police said. The Chandra Layout police have registered a case.

Robbed

Two men stabbed an optician and robbed him of a gold chain valued at Rs. 10,000 near his house in Cottonpet police station limits on Sunday.

The police said that around 11.30 p.m. two men waylaid Pradeep Kumar Jain on 1st Cross, G.B. Lane, while he was returning home from a party.

They pushed him from his motorcycle, stabbed him on the shoulder and snatched his chain.

A case is registered.

Burglary

Thieves broke into two adjoining houses in Commercial Street police station limits on Saturday and looted Rs. 50,000 in cash, and gold ornaments and a camera, together estimated at Rs. 2.25 lakh.

The police said the burglars made away with Rs. 50,000 in cash and gold ornaments estimated at Rs. 2 lakh from tailor Padmanabha Rao's house on Sangam Road; and a gold ring and a camera from his neighbour Muniraju's house.

The Commercial Street police have registered two cases.