Mangalore, September 17: Police have apprehended seven persons in connection with stealing valuables from people in the garb of devotees from temples.
Addressing media persons at a press meet in Mangalore on Monday, Abhishek Goyal, SP, Dakshina Kannada, said that on September 11, Belthangady police personnel deputed on vehicle patrolling near Kanyadi in Dharmasthala stopped a Tavera car bearing registration number KA-22-3339. Seven persons and three children in the car tried to escape but were caught and interrogated and found out that they were engaging in stealing in the garb of devotees from temples.
The accused are Srinivas alias Sheenu (32), Moulana Saab (35), Suresh Soma Reddy Kodagante (28), Lakkavva alias Lakkamma (45), Sharada (24), Tippavva (35) and Kamala Parvathi (65), all hailing from Gadag district.
They would pose as devotees in prominent temples and steal cash and gold from other devotees, Mr. Goyal said. They have in the past resorted to stealing in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu as well. 4 mobile phones, Rs. 3,200 in cash and jewellery worth Rs. 7,00,000 have been recovered from the accused.
'Urudelu girl's death a murder, not unnatural'
The death of Savitha (28) whose body was found in a well near her house in Urudelu village in Belthangady on September 7, was not an unnatural death or suicide but was a murder, Mr. Goyal informed.
Savitha had an affair with Umesha, the husband of Sharada and it was suspected that he could have been behind the murder. When police interrogated him, he revealed that Savitha did indeed have an affair with him and was pressurizing him to leave Sharada, his wife and her own elder sister, and marry her. Frustrated by her constant pressure, Umesha resorted to killing her. Through a telephone call, he asked her to come out of the house and pushed her into the well, Mr. Goyal said.
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