Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, May 28: The serial robbers, who have been making merry by striking at will, made their appearance again late night on Tuesday May 26 and robbed cash and valuables from three houses located in the residential extension behind Kulai Sri Vishnumurti temple near Suratkal.

Their modus operandi was the same. People of a house saw three knickers-clad thieves alighting from a car and barging into one of the houses. Even after seeing suspicious-looking persons in the locality, they did not call the policemen. When enquired, they simply said they did not have the telephone number of the police station, thus spurning an opportunity of nabbing the gang. It is gathered, that the policemen were in the vicinity when the crime took place and timely information would have helped them to arrest the culprits.

The robbers entered the house of Saraswati at around 11 pm and snatched away her gold chain. Then they broke open the rear door of a house owned by Sripati Bhat and robbed cash and jewellery worth one lac rupees. Although they had also entered a third house near there, no details are available as yet as no complaint has been registered so far.

Sripati Bhat had called the number 100 but the policemen failed to get prompt information.  They then visited only the first house where the robbery took place and returned.  Only after Bhat collected the phone number of the local police station from some source and called them that the police personnel came to his house. The policemen have requested the people to pass on information about the movement of suspicious-looking people in their locality, call either the police control room (100) or the police station concerned by noting down the telephone number from the telephone directory. It is important to provide correct address of the site of crime, they said.