Rs 7 lakh stolen from car parked outside Hosur bank

KRISHNAGIRI: An unidentified man broke a side window glass of a car parked outside a bank at Mathigiri in Hosur on Wednesday and stole Rs 7 lakh kept inside the vehicle by a couple. The incident happened when K Sridhar, 48, of Chennapalli and his wife, Shobha,41, went to an ATM to withdraw money.The couple reached the Indian Bank branch to retrieve gold jewellery pledged there. "We parked the car in front of the branch and went to withdraw money from an ATM as we were short of Rs 20,000," Sridhar, a taxi driver, told reporters.When they returned after withdrawing the money, the couple found the front left side window glass of the car broken and Rs 7 lakh missing.Sridhar filed a complaint at the Mathigiri police station. Based on the complaint, police registered a case and examined footage from surveillance cameras near the bank."Footage showed an unknown man breaking window glass, entering the vehicle and escaping with a bag containing the money," said a police officer.Further investigations are on.