Man robbed in drunken brawl

BANGALORE: A drunken brawl turned ugly when two men, falsely claiming to be from an English daily, robbed a person of his valuables in J P Nagar police limits on Saturday.According tocomplainant Arjun Joli, a resident of Wilson Garden, he had gone to a restauranton Saturday with friends. When he came out after eating, he sat onsomebody’s motorcycle. Two men — one of them the owner of thevehicle — came out of a bar and broke into anargument.“They took me to Sarakki Gate and assaultedme,” Joli said. Later, they threatened Joli to give Rs 20,000, for whichhe called his friend and took Rs 7,000. J P Nagar police said it was a drunkenbrawl. The two parties knew each other since Joli showed the callsmade by the accused Narendra and his friends. “If they were robbers, howdid these people come to know the name and phone number of the accused? We areinvestigating to find out more about the case,” a police officersaid.TECHIE COMMITS SUICIDESubhananda, 30, a software engineerwith a telecom company, committed suicide in Hanumanthnagar police limits onSaturday. Police said Subhananda, a native of Periyapattana, was living athis sister’s place at Raghavendra Block, Hanumanthnagar. On Saturday, whennobody was at home, he hanged himself. The reason for his suicide isunknown.WOMAN KILLS HERSELFUnable to bear the pain of losing herdaughter, a 65-year-old women committed suicide by jumping into a well onGangammanagudi Road in Thyagarajanagar on Saturday. Police said Jayamma, alabourer, who was living with her 16-year-old daughter, killed herself due todepression. This, after the girl died in a stove blast accident two monthsago.MOB DAMAGES BMTC BUSA mob smashed the windshield of a BMTCbus after it injured a pedestrian at Pantharapalya in Byatarayanapura trafficpolice limits on Sunday morning. Police said the bus plying betweenDodderi and City Market hit a labourer, Saraswathi, 35. Although she was takento hospital immediately, a mob started pelting stones and damaged the bus.Police brought the situation under control withinminutes.CHAIN-SNATCHERS IN NETAshoknagar police arrested twochain-snatchers and recovered items worth Rs 2.75 lakh. The accused Srinivas,26, and Chandrashekhar, 26, had struck at various areas in the city.