Thieves who cut off woman's finger arrested

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Girinagar police have arrested and jailed two men who targeted women who were going home after attending an orchestra, assaulted them with a machete and robbed them of their belongings. Yogananda (35) and his accomplice Praveen are those arrested. Eighty grams of gold ornaments were seized from them.

On September 13, the complainant, Usha, and her friend Varalakshmi were returning home af ter finishing the Ganesh festival orchestra when the miscreants on a Pulsar bike attacked them with a machete. While Usha gave in to their demand, Varalakshmi resisted and was attacked with a machete which severed her finger.

On the same day, the accused had committed a series of robberies in Konanakunte police station limits. Police said that a case was registered and the two accused were arrested and remanded in judicial custody. The main accused Yogananda, who lived in Gollarahalli in the city, is originally a resi dent of Marasingahalli in Maddur.

Since 2010, he had been involved in 25 different criminal cases including murder, robbery and chain snatching and had been to jail many times. Police have informed that he was arrested in one case and released on bail three months ago and again engaged in chain snatching. He was living a luxurious life with the money he earned by selling stolen gold ornaments.

After committing the crime on September 13, he traveled to various places including Goa and Puducherry and returned to his hometown after running out of money. The police, who had been waiting for him for a month, arrested him as soon as he arrived in his hometown. South Division DCP Lokesh B Jagalasar said the two accused have com mitted a series of robberies in Girinagar, Kumaraswamy Layout and Konanakunte po lice station limits.