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Bengaluru: A botched getaway helped locals catch one of two miscreants who robbed a scrap shop owner at Budigere Cross, east Bengaluru, on Oct 26. The duo arrived on a scooter pretending to sell iron scrap but stole over Rs 5,000 from the owner’s cash pouch and took her daughter’s bag, which contained a company ID card. A resident of Budigere Cross, she was at the shop on Oct 26 at 7:25pm, with her daughter, Meena , a student and part-time employee of a private firm, when the two men came to her shop on a scooter, according to the complaint filed by scrap shop owner Rathnamma (47). She told the duo that 1kg of scrap binding wire would fetch them a maximum of Rs 15-20. She weighed the scrap and offered them Rs 50. Taking advantage of a power cut in the area, while Rathnamma was using her mobile torch, the miscreants snatched her money pouch, containing over Rs 5,000. the other, who was running, was caught near a bus stop around 200 metres away While one managed to escape on the scooter. Police identified him as Nazeer (30), a resident of Nagawara, and his associate was Asif.
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