CFTRI scientist among three robbed

In another incident, a forest department staffer lost her gold chain worth ` 20,000 on Aranya Bhavan road on Tuesday. Gayathri, working as SDC at Nanjangud was walking towards her quarters, when two on foot robbed her from the rear side. Panicked Gayathri sought help from a motorcycle rider who came from the opposite direction.

She had a shock in store as that motorcycle rider turned out to be one of the accomplices of the two. The trio fled on the same vehicle. In yet another incident, N Chandrashekar, a CFTRI scientist lost his gold chain worth Rs. 15,000 at T K Layout. Two youth robbed him on the pretext of asking an address before fleeing with another on a motorcycle.