Bangalore Robberies

• Bangalore: one person nabbed for trying to break open ATM

  One person belonging to a two-member gang was arrested for attempting to break open an ATM in Bangalore today.

• Jain temple in Bangalore burgled

  A popular Jain temple in the old city of the Karnataka capital was burgled early on Sunday by unidentified thieves, who decamped with Rs 5 lakh in cash and gold ornaments valued at Rs 16 lakh, a police official said.

• Six notorious robbers arrested in Bangalore

  Six dacoits have been nabbed and valuables including gold ornaments and vehicles totally worth Rs 13 lakh seized from them, police said. The men were arrested on August 14 while hatching a plan to commit another robbery. About 135 grams of gold ornaments, eight two-wheelers and one four wheeler, all worth a total of Rs 13 lakh recovered from them, ...

• Gang of thieves nabbed in Bangalore

  City Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths nabbed a five-member gang that was hatching a plan to commit a robbery, police said.

• Rs 1.6 crore robbed from Bangalore ATM

  Over Rs. 1 crore cash was reportedly robbed this morning by a gang of 15 people when the money was being loaded in an ATM machine. The incident happened at the Corporation Bank ATM in RT Nagar here at around 11:30 am on Monday morning.

• Three held during raid on automobile shops

  Three persons have been arrested on charges of storing and selling fake spare parts of Hyundai cars, police said on Wednesday.

• Passengers rob autodriver

  An auto rickshaw driver was robbed of his auto and other valuables worth about Rs 50,000 by two unidentified miscreants, who boarded his auto as passengers.

• Diamond ornaments worth Rs 1 crore robbed from jewellery shop

  Diamond ornaments worth around Rs 1 crore were robbed from a well-known jewellery shop allegedly by one of its employees in Bangalore's Jayanagar district on Friday, police said.A Rajastan native - Sonalal Khatri, an employee of 'Aabushan Jewelers', is the main suspect in the alleged robbery, police said.Khatri had been employed at the jewellery sh...

• Robberies, chain snatching incidents on the rise in Bangalore

  A city once considered safe is fast losing its sense of security. Reports of mugging, robbery and chain snatching are raising fears in minds, especially of night shift workers."Personally, I will not favour women venturing out alone after 9 pm," says T Madiyal, a former director general of police. How safe a city is for women and children is measur...

• Bangalore store staff polished off real diamond, alleges woman

  Powai resident Sangeetha Dungarwal, who was visiting her relatives in Bangalore last month, had stopped at Sri Krishna Jewellers on Commercial Street to check out a nose ring."I was wearing a ring having a diamond worth Rs 1.30 lakh when a salesman asked if he could take a look at the ring," said Dungarwal, a regular visitor to the store."He starte...

• Couple wanted in 11 cases arrested by Bangalore police

  The Upparpeth police in Bangalore have arrested a couple wanted in more than 11 cases since July 2009. The police also recovered jewels worth Rs 7 lakh and Rs 3.5 lakh in cash from Venkatesh Raju and his wife Mamata.

• ATM with Rs 16 lakh stolen as guards slept

  In what could be a first crime of its kind in Karnataka, a gang disappeared with an HDFC bank ATM in Anekal(Bangalore). Police limits in the wee hours of Tuesday, hoodwinking two security guards on duty.

• Roommate steals Rs 65,000, passport from city techie

  25-year-old Srikanth Reddy N, a software engineer with IBM, had to suffer a loss of Rs, 65,000 when his roommate Madhura alias Abhi, who claimed to be a doctor, fled with two of his credit cards and his passport.