Mysore/Mysuru: Kuvempunagar Police have arrested five persons on charges of committing robbery at the house of a lawyer and decamping with Rs. 6 lakh cash. The Police have recovered Rs. 2 lakh cash besides seizing a car, a Honda Activa scooter and five mobile phones from them. The Cops have launched a hunt to nab…

Mysuru: Kuvempunagar Police have cracked the theft case at the showroom of a reputed footwear brand by arresting a 20-year-old youth. Prajwal, a resident of the city, is the arrested person from whom the Police have recovered a two-wheeler, two cell phones and Rs. 5,500 cash. On May 7, the shutter of Puma Showroom was…

Mysore/Mysuru: A man allegedly befriended a 36-year-old divorcee woman on Facebook (FB), later blackmailed and swindled Rs. 25 lakh from her, besides carrying out a murder attempt on the woman’s son recently. Following a complaint from the woman, Kuvempunagar Police have booked a case against the accused, identified as Sumanth, his girlfriend (name not known)…

Mysore/Mysuru: In yet another case of cheating through forged or fake documents concerning buying or selling of  sites and other landed properties, the Kuvempunagar Police have booked a case against two persons for selling a residential site to a KPTCL Engineer using forged documents. What is even more interesting here is that MUDA has done…

Threaten to commit suicide when investors ask for refund Mysore/Mysuru: A couple, who were conducting chit fund business illegally, have not only cheated the investors of lakhs of rupees but also threatened of committing suicide when the investors asked them to return their money. The accused couple is Sanna Shivu and his wife M.S. Geetha,…

Mysore/Mysuru: Kuvempunagar Police have arrested a house burglar and have recovered 40 grams gold ornaments worth Rs. 2 lakh from him. The accused is 51-year-old Manja alias Manjunath of Halasinahalli in Hassan. He had burgled the house of one Kushalappa in Vasu Layout on Dec. 9, 2022 and Kuvempunagar Police, who had registered a case…

Mysore/Mysuru: Kuvempunagar Police have arrested three women including a scooter riding instructor on charges of stealing gold ornaments worth lakhs of rupees and cash from a student’s house. The accused are riding instructor 38-year-old Amrutha of Kuvempunagar and her friends 28-year-old Ashwini and 26-year-old Shruthi, residents of Chamundipuram in city. The Cops have recovered 160…

Mysore/Mysuru: Kuvempunagar Police have registered a case against a loan recovery agent for allegedly cheating a private bank of Rs. 10.13 lakh. The accused loan recovery agent is 39-year-old Srinivasamurthy, a resident of Rajendranagar in city. Team Lease Services Limited, a firm at Koramangala in Bengaluru, had given Srinivasamurthy, the contract to recover loans of…

Mysore/Mysuru: A 33-year-old man has been cheated of Rs. 27.64 lakh after he was lured into film production by promising high returns. The man, who has been cheated, is K.S. Siddarth, former Business Development Officer of Sundaram Finance and a resident of Vivekananda Circle in city. While working in the finance company, Siddarth’s colleague Sridhar…

Mysore/Mysuru: A miscreant has snatched a gold chain of a lecturer on Deepavali day. The incident took place near Gantebasappa Temple in Dattagalli here. The lecturer, who lost her gold chain is 32-year-old Annapoorna, a resident of E&F Block in Dattagalli. On Oct. 24 evening, Annapoorna was proceeding to the temple when the miscreant came…