Mysuru:  Miscreants snatched a 50 gram gold necklace from a woman who was walking home from a shop near her house at Hebbal on Oct.31.

The incident occurred in the afternoon near Shivananda School. The victim is Kaushalya, 34, wife of Hebbal resident Srinivas.

Kaushalya runs a paying guest accommodation. She had gone to a shop and was returning around 2.30 pm when miscreants came on a bike snatched the chain and sped away.

On receiving the information, Hebbal Police Station Inspector Prasad and his staff visited the spot, conducted mahzar and registered a case. The residents of the area are worried that the chain snatching incident has occurred in broad daylight and are now scared about their safety.

Money stolen from car

In another incident that occurred in broad daylight on the same day, miscreants broke the glass window of a car on Oct.31 and decamped with Rs.2.90 lakh belonging to an industrialist and escaped.

The incident occurred near HDFC Bank in VV Mohalla and the victim is Shekar son of Narayan, a resident of Gokulam, 3rd Stage.

Shekar who runs a petrol bunk in K.R. Nagar had withdrawn Rs. 4 lakh from Vijaya Bank in Gokulam and kept it inside his Maruti Swift car (KA 09 Z 1199). Then he left Rs.2.90 lakh cash in the dashboard of the car after parking it in front of HDFC Bank on Temple Road and went inside the bank with the remaining money.

When he came out of the bank he found the front left window of the car broken. Then he saw that the bag containing the cash had been stolen. Immediately Shekar brought the incident to the notice of VV Puram Police.

Inspector (in-charge) Prakash and his staff reached the spot, conducted mahazar and registered a case. VV Puram Police is looking at the footage in the CCTV cameras.

The Police suspect that some miscreants must have noticed Shekar withdrawing the cash, followed him and committed the crime.