ERV Prabhakar

Prabhakar

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Kittur Rani Chennamma Stadium

Jayanagar

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Feigning injury, man picks fight with tech firm staffer, threatens him at knifepoint and robs himA curious strategy for mugging has emerged from an incident of Tuesday evening. The finance director of a software firm,, was returning from work in his car late evening, when a man on a scooter confronted him claiming the car had gone over his leg. Whentried talking to the man, he soon changed his tone and finally held Prabhakar at knifepoint and escaped with twochains and gold rings each, a bracelet and Rs 10,000.Prabhakar, a resident of Jayanagar, was driving and had reached nearofFirst Block. Around 7.45 pm, he had stopped at the junction due to traffic, when he heard a noise of something knocking on his car.Prabhakar told BM he looked around but saw no one. “I ignored it and resumed driving and had reached near Apollo hospital, when a man on a scooter came from my right side and asked me to stop the car. He parked his scooter in front of the car. The man claimed that I had run over his leg and had not stopped to check.”When Prabhakar told the man he had done no such thing, the man raised a hue and cry. “After complaining about the pain in his leg, he tried to hit me. I locked my car, got down and spoke to him,” Prabhakar said.The man soon changed colours and claimed he was a known goonda of the area. He threatened to stab Prabhakar. “I requested him to accompany me to the hospital as it was right in front and told him I would bear the expenses of the treatment if he has got hurt. The man refused to go to hospital and made a call, or at least pretended to be on a call,” he said.He asked on the phone “where they were”. Then he told the finance director that he had committed three murders and wouldn’t mind stabbing him too. “I was scared by then. Many people had gathered, but none interfered. I tried to call my friend over phone, but he asked me to disconnect the call and keep the phone in my pocket. He told me his friends were coming and that he would not be responsible for what his friends do. He asked me to accompany him and went on his scooter.He rode to a place near the Rama temple and stopped behind the school. He made me remove two gold chains, two finger rings, a bracelet. He helped me remove chains, he counted cash in my wallet including Rs 10 note, altogether more than Rs 10,000. He took everything and left the place on his scooter. I tried to note down the registration number, but there was none,” Prabhakar said.Prabhakar called the police control room, who took him to his car and then to the police station. The Siddapura police have taken up the case and are examining the footage ofcameras installed in the surrounding. The miscreant was aged between 30-35 years and was fluent in Kannada.