Thief flees with gold, cash after befriending owner,

Mangalore Today News Network

Dec 20, 2017: A thief in Kaukrady in Puttur,  fled with cash and gold after asking the aged owner of a house to go out and get some mango leaves for him.

Just after 3 in the afternoon, an unidentified man arrived on his bike at the 70-year-old Kinhanna Gowda’s house. The man developed a rapport over talks with Gowda and then asked him for some mango leaves saying he needed them for a ritual at his house.

Without suspecting him, Gowda, who was staying alone in the house, locked the main door and placed the key on the extruded portion of window outside and covered it with an utensil. Then he went to his farm to collect mango twigs.


When he came back, Gowda, to his dismay saw the main door of the house open and the man missing. On checking the house, he found that the cupboard in his bed room was forced open, and gold and cash was missing.


Gowda, in his complaint at the Uppinangadi police station, has stated that five sovereign gold and Rs 50,000 cash was been missing from the cupboard.