notorious robbers

robbery

Parappana Agrahara

victims’ phones and broke open the

, taking

30,000 in cash and other gold valuables.

horror in city

by two physical education

instructors at an upmarket

school in

.

University student was

abducted and sexually assaulted

by five in a moving

vehicle in

Town.

girl raped by her tuition

teacher in

Layout .

24-year-old techie

repeatedly

rapes

8-year-old

cousin in

.

raped by a man who lived

next to victim’s grandmother’s

house in

.

raped by a 45-year-old

school

in

.

student lured to boys' bathroom

and sexually assaulted

by Hindi teacher inside a

private school in

.

In the continuing trend of 'horrific incidents over the last several months in the city, a 25-year-old mother of a nine-month-old boy was raped, in the presence of her husband and mother-in-law, by two, while the accomplices are reported to have videographed it.'The incident took place in HSR Layout on October 24, though it was first reported by the family as just a. Two days after the incident, the family gathered courage to ignore the perceived social stigma and report the rape. The revised complaint changed the scope of the probe for the police, who, till then, were probing it as a burglary case, similar to a few reported in the area over the previous weeks.The police moved swiftly to bring to book all the four members of the gang. The gang is suspected to have been recently formed inwhen all four were lodged for separate crimes of robbery there. The gang would knock on the doors of houses pretending to be police and would gain access into homes. Their area of operation was HSR Layout; one of the incidents -- where presumably the same gang barged into a house at the adjacent BTM Layout where a group of six was partying and molested the three girls in the group -- was reported by Bangalore Mirror in its October 18 issue.It is suspected that this gang had also attacked a businessman in front of his house in HSR Layout last month.On October 24, they followed the same modus operandi: Around 11.40 pm, these men reportedly knocked on the door of a house in HSR Layout, shouting that they were policemen who wanted to talk to the man of the house in connection with illegal sale of beer and marijuana.The victim, her husband, mother-in-law and the nine-month-old baby were fast asleep. The door was opened by the victim's husband when the gang, each of who was carrying a knife, forced their way in and began threatening the family.They switched off thealmirahRsThey then gagged the woman and her mother-in-law and pushed them into one of the rooms, while threatening the husband at knifepoint in the hall. Later, he too was bound and gagged.The two women were brought into the main room and the gang did what the family feared the most.The gang left, but not before threatening to kill the family if they approached the police.Somehow they disentangled themselves and cried for help. A neighbour alerted the landlord who unlocked the door from outside.The control room was informed and the police soon reached the spot.The first complaint tendered by the family on October 25 only detailed the robbery and how the victims were tied up, but made no mention of the gang-rape.It was only two days later that the victims re-approached the police saying they had hidden some vital facts about the incident due to the embarrassment and social stigma surrounding rape.“We received a detailed account of the real incident that took place that fateful night, and immediately registered a case."We tracked down the accused who were hiding in Chikkaballapur and arrested them from the bus stand at 6.30 pm on October 31. All four are notorious robbers and vehicle lifters who are wanted previously in several cases that took place in various parts of the city,” said a senior police officer who is part of the investigations.“Our investigations reveal that it was only Nandish and Anil who raped the victim, while one of the other two videographed it."We have recovered two two-wheelers, seven mobile phones, and an assortment of lethal weapons such as knives, swords, iron rods etc from the gang."We also recovered the victims’ oranaments and valuables that had been pledged with two pawnbrokers in Chikkaballapur’s Paresandra Cross,” the officer added.In a swift operation following the complaint, South East DCP’s squad managed to arrest the gang who are reportedly habitual offenders wanted in many notorious theft and robbery cases.The four arrested are V Nandish, C Anil Kumar, C Sujit Kumar, and C Simon, all aged 21 and residents of Kalena Agrahara, Bannerghatta Road.Nandish is wanted in numerous cases of robbery in Bannerghatta, Jigani, Hulimavu, JP Nagar, Hebbagodi, and Parappana Agrahara, while Anil Kumar had recently gone to jail in connection with a few theft cases in Sarjapur.Six-year-old -rapedMarathalli22-year-old ManipalFrazer10-year-oldHSRBommanahalli10-year-old girlYeshwanthpurThree-year-oldattenderJalahalliSix-year-oldJeevanBima nagar