Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
Mangalore, Aug 27: A young woman travelling by Bangalore-Mangalore bus was reportedly looted of Rs 1.2 lac after being rendered unconscious with a chemical solution.
Savitri (22), a resident of Kulai was travelling from Bangalore to Mangalore on the night of August 25. When the bus reached Nelyady, all of a sudden, a person who was sitting behind Savitri covered her face with a cloth dipped in a chemical solution, and soon she lost consciousness.
By the time the bus reached Uppinangady, Savitri regained consciousness and realized that her vanity bag and the gold earrings she was wearing had gone missing. The person who was sitting behind her had also disappeared.
Savitri who was still feeling dizzy because of the chemical solution used on her fell asleep again, and after the bus reached KSRTC, she was admitted to hospital.
In her complaint, Savitri stated that there were three young men aged between 23 and 24 sitting behind her seat in the bus. They were speaking to each other in Hindi and might have robbed her after making her unconscious, she stated. Altogether, she lost cash and gold worth Rs 1.4 lac, she said in the complaint.