Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Nov 13: A few highway robbers are following a pre-conceived plan of somehow gaining entry into vehicles and then robbing the passengers or driver of the vehicles by posing threat to their lives.
Two incidents that occured on Tuesday November 11 and Wednesday November 12 give an indication about the network of robbers who work to their plans. On Wednesday morning, a Scorpio vehicle intercepted a truck carrying dried copra between Kaup and Katpady. Three occupants of the vehicle got into the truck on some pretext. After some time, the three wrested control of the truck and demanded money from the two drivers of the truck named Satish Killedar and Deepak Bhonsle. When they refused, they hit hard on the head of Satish Killedar and succeeded in snatching Rs 7,000 and two mobile phones they had with them. The miscreants deserted the truck at Katpady junction and fled in the Scorpio bearing registration No. KA 21 N 6078.
On the morning of Tuesday at around 6.45 am, a person named P V Shivkumar from Hiriadka Bommarabettu was going towards Udupi from Mangalore when the occupants of an Innova car stopped him at the Kalyani Bar, Yermal village on the highway. They told Kumar that their car had developed some problems and asked for a spanner. As Shivkumar opened the door of this car, two among them forcefully entered the car. One of them occupied the driver's seat and as the car turned towards Mangalore, Kumar's face was covered with a cloth. On reaching Ballalbagh in the city, they snatched four ATM cards, gold chain, mobile and Rs 830 from him before dumping him there. Shivkumar's car bears the registration No. TN 47 R 8139. He had not properly read the registration number of the Innova.
He has since registered a case at Padubidri police station.