Date:01/08/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/08/01/stories/2007080163210400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Stockbroker’s house burgled Crime Notes

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Burglars struck at a stockbroker’s flat in Fraser Town police station limits on Tuesday morning and looted Rs. 2.5 lakh cash and gold jewellery worth Rs. 1.8 lakh.

The police said the incident took place at the third floor flat of Govind Santhani in the posh Mini Avenue Court apartments, situated opposite Lakeside Hospital.

Mr. Santhani, who left his flat around 9.15 a.m., returned 30 minutes later and found that his house was burgled. The thieves had entered in by breaking the locks of the main door, the police said. The Fraser Town police registered a case.

Chains snatched

Two motorcycle-borne men snatched a gold chain along with the mangalasutra, worth Rs. 58,000, from a software engineer in Madivala police station limits on Monday night.

The police said the duo snatched the chain from Shobana, an engineer with Infosys, while she was walking towards her house in Teachers’ Colony after getting down from the company cab near Hosur Ring Road. The Madivala police have registered a case.

In another incident, a man, posing as television cable repairer, snatched a gold chain worth Rs. 30,000 from a woman in Peenya police station limits on Monday evening. The police said that around 4.45 p.m. the man snatched the chain from Geetha while she was sitting on the staircase of her house on K.K. Road in T. Dasarahalli.