News and pics: Ramesh Pandith
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (EP)
Mangaluru, May 17: Thieves broke into the house of Dr Krishna Bhat at KHB Colony, Yekkur on the way to Fisheries College on the intervening night of May 15 and May 16 early morning and decamped with five sovereigns of gold ornaments worth Rs 1.5 lac.
Dr Krishna Bhat, a yoga doctor and retired professor at Konaje University had gone to his daughter’s house at Bengaluru accompanied by his son Harischandra and wife Savitha on the morning of May 15.
Thieves broke into his house, ransacked three cupboards and decamped with five sovereign’s gold worth 1.5 lac. Interestingly the thieves did not take any other valuables other than gold, though the doctor's family had left some mobiles in the house. The elder brother of Dr Bhat who came in the morning of May 16, after getting the information, found the main door wide open.
Kankanady rural police arrived with a sniffer dog and forensic experts and conducted investigations. No arrests are made yet.