Two brutally murdered

TNN / Nov 5, 2005, 03:40 IST

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A truck driver and cleaner were brutally murdered with screwdrivers and robbed by unidentified persons off Tumkur highway.

BANGALORE: A truck driver and cleaner were brutally murdered with screwdrivers and robbed by unidentified persons off the Tumkur highway near Nelamangala on Thursday night. The driver was stabbed in the chest in his cabin seat while the cleaner was found stripped and stabbed 18 times in a drain about 100 feet away.
The police said the assailants had cut open the short-pants of the driver, probably to rob money.Miscreants had stabbed the cleaner and left the blood-stained screwdriver nearby. The driver was identified as Rammurthy, aged around 30, a native of Vellore.
Spate of thefts: Criminals continued to go on a spree during the festive season looting jewellery and mobile phones in separate incidents over the last 24 hours. Two workers made away with cash and gold jewellery worth over Rs 15 lakh that had adorned an idol for diwali in a house in Adugodi on Thursday.
The police said Ramesh Lal Posra, a granite dealer, had employed two youths from Orissa. He had adorned an idol with cash and jewellery worth over Rs 35 lakh. On Thursday, he found cash and jewellery worth Rs 15 lakh missing. Ramesh informed that the two workers �� Mahesh and Chandrashekar �� had stolen the valuables.
In another incident, burglars looted mobile phones and other peripherals worth over Rs 1 lakh from a showroom in Kamalanagar on Thursday afternoon.
Policeman suspended: A sub-inspector attached to the Chandra Layout police station has been suspended on charges of dereliction of duty after he failed to act quickly on a complaint by a resident. Sub-inspector (law and order) Lakshman Gowda was suspended by deputy commissioner of police (West) Sharath Chandra following an inquiry.

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