Daijiworld Media Network - Chikkamagaluru (SP)

Chikkamagaluru, Aug 13: Courage has been hailed as an essential virtue for success and also for handling tough situations. A lady employee who showed timely brashness proved this adage right, and succeeded in saving her owner from possible loss running into lacs of rupees.

This incident happened at Sringeri in the district. The woman with her instant act, made a robber who had come armed with a sickle to beat a hasty retreat. The entire act was captured in the CCTV cameras fitted in the shop.

Screengrabs from CCTV footage

A man wearing a face mask and holding a long sickle, suddenly barged into a jewellery shop owned by Nagappa Shet. The shop has only women employees, and the robber seemed to be aware of that in advance. He brazenly moved into the shop and flashed his sickle at which the lady employees became fearful. One of the lady employees, who mustered every ounce of the courage she had, suddenly pounced on the robber and drove him away.

The lady noticed that the robber, who was rest assured that the ladies in the shop could not do him any harm, became a little relaxed and started looking here and there. When his attention was away, the lady took a chair in her hands, and brought it down forcefully on the robber. The robber, who was taken aback by this sudden attack which was like a bolt from the blue, ran away with the three golden chains he was holding at that time. The women raised an alarm at which people nearby tried to catch hold of the robber but failed in their objective.

The local police who have registered a case are investigating.

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