Enraged by her refusal to marry him, 26-year-old Manju alias B T S Manja tried to set S Nandini (22) on fire late on Wednesday evening. The girl, who was immediately hospitalised, was stated to be out of danger.

According to sources, the incident occurred at Nandini’s residence on Munishwara Temple Street.

Manju, a resident of the same area and a distant relative of Nandini, a final year B Com student at Maharani College, poured kersosene on her before setting her afire and fleeing. According to her brother-in-law Venkatesh, Nandini was admitted to a nursing home with 30 per cent burns. Manju is also a rowdy sheeter, he said.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Alok Kumar said the two had been good friends but Nandini started drifting away once she came to know of Manju’s background.

Woman robbed
Six intruders robbed a house in Chandra Layout police limits on Wednesday night and made away with jewellry and Rs 37,000 in cash.

According to the police, on the miscreants knocking on the doors of a house on Kalyan Nagar 3rd Main Road, its owner Shobha opened them and the intruders flourished lethal weapons as they made away with the valuables.
All of them were in the early or mid 20s and spoke Kannada, said Shobha, who was alone in the house.

Mobiles haul from 3
The Ashoknagar police on Wednesday arrested three persons for plotting to rob innocent citizens. The police recovered nine mobile phones, worth Rs 30,000, from Amzad (20), Imran Pasha (19), both of Walmikhinagar, and Yusuf (24) of Tippunagar, in Mysore.

Acting on a tip-off, the police had surrounded them near a graveyard on Hosur Road when “they were conspiring”.
However, two others, Shahrukh and Ayub, managed to escape. The five would rob mobiles and pick pockets of co-passengers in city buses.

They were also involved in various theft cases registered with Chamrajpet police stations.

Bike-riders rob man
Unidentified person robbed 30-year-old Lokesh of his valuables on Wednesday night in Sanjaynagar police limits.
Lokesh was returning home when two men on a bike accosted him at Devinagar in Lotegollahalli. The two threatened him and snatched his watch, mobile and gold ornaments.

Pedestrian run over
An unidentified pedestrian was killed on Wednesday in Kamakshipalya traffic police limits when a speeding truck ran over him on Nagarbhavi Ring Road.

The truck driver absconded, abandoning the truck on the spot.