Anekal: In a shocking incident, a man made an unsuccessful attempt to kill his girlfriend by assaulting her brutally in Harohalli police station limits of Ramanagar district.
The victim has been identified as 35-year-old Jayalaxmi, a resident of Manchinahalli near Attebele in Anekal. Whereas Attebele’s Vaderahalli resident Muniraju (28) is accused.
The duo, who was in love for past 10 years, was working at a private factory in the industrial estate of Attebele.
According to police; Muniraju, as per his plot, took Jayalaxmi in his Omini van towards forest area from Tattekeri. But he was unaware that a village Kanivedoddi is there near the forest. When Muniraju stopped his car in the forest and started beating Jayalaxmi, a bike-rider coming from Kanivedoddi observed it. After seeing the bike-rider, Muniraju thrown off Jayalxmi from the van and escaped.
Later forest staff and cops approached the spot and rescued Jayalaxmi. She has been hospitalized and out of danger.
Harohalli police are searching for Muniraju who is absconding.
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Bengaluru (PTI): A 55-year-old domestic help was arrested for allegedly stealing gold jewellery and cash worth Rs 16 lakh from an elderly couple's house here, police said.
Dhanlakshmi had been working at the couple's house in Frazer Town for nearly 25 years, they said.
With her arrest, police claimed to have recovered 54 grams of gold jewellery and Rs 8 lakh cash, totaling worth Rs 16 lakh.
The matter came to light on February 19 when a complaint was filed in this regard at Pulakeshinagar police station, police said.
According to police, the elderly couple used to withdraw money every month from a nearby bank for household expenses and used to take the domestic help along with them. After withdrawing the cash, they would keep it in their house.
Observing this, the domestic help is suspected to have stolen cash and two gold chains weighing about 54 grams from the house since the year 2025, without the knowledge of the elderly couple.
During the course of investigation, on March 5, a notice was issued to the domestic help for an inquiry. During interrogation, she confessed to committing the theft, a senior police officer said.
"Upon questioning, the accused revealed that she had kept the stolen gold jewellery and cash at her residence. Based on the information provided by her, on March 7, 54 grams of gold jewellery and Rs 8 lakh in cash was recovered from her possession. The total value of the recovered property is Rs 16 lakh," he added.
