MYSURU: After a bank robbery and loot at the ATM, a daylight robbery was reported near Harohalli in the Jaipura police station limits in Mysuru on Monday morning. A four-member masked gang stopped an SUV, broke window pane, sprayed chemicals on the face of a Kerala-based businessman and his driver and assaulted them with an iron rod before they made away with the car and robbed Rs 1.5 lakh cash, stunning the onlookers.
The victims are identified as Sufi Ahmed and Asraf who are into areca business from Kalpetta in Wayanad. Safi recapturing the horror said that the assailants overtook his car and suddenly started attacking him, sprayed chemicals on his face before they decamped with the cash and the Ford Eco-Sport.
Shafi lodged a complaint with the Jaipura police, saying that the gang members spoke Malayalam but could not recognise them. The local police conducted a mahazar and they are tracking the gang as the video grab of the incident has gone viral on social media platforms.
Mysuru SP Vishnuvardhan and other officials rushed to the spot and alerted the police in neighbouring districts and kept a vigil on the movement of vehicles.
He said that they have also alerted the Kalpetta SP who started screening vehicles at Karnataka-Kerala border check posts and has formed three teams. The police took the CCTV footage of the incident and movements of vehicles on HD Kote Road and to the Mananthawadi check-post.