Newskarnataka-Moodbidri
Moodbidri : A youth who tried to escape with a gold chain on the pretext of polishing it, was trapped by the public at Beluvai on August 13, Tuesday. However, another person managed to escape.
Two youth of Bihar origin had been to the house of Chennappa of Marpady on Tuesday morning and polished just a bronze vessel after realizing that there were men in the house. They then moved to a neighbouring house where there were two women. Initially they won the confidence of the women by polishing their toe ring. The gullible women then gave a gold chain weighing two sovereigns for polishing. The youth cleaned the chain in some solution and then wrapped it in a piece of paper asking the women to open it after half an hour. They then left the place.
However, the women realized that they were cheated when they opened the paper and found a broken artificial chain. But by then the youth had escaped. But locals namely Praveen Shetty, Jaya Acharya, Chennappa, Idinabba and others went in search of them and on gathering information that one of them had boarded a bus from Daregudde, stopped the bus at Beluvai and trapped the youth named Anand.
The stolen chain was seized from him and handed over to the family. The absconding youth is identified as Mahesh. It is learnt the duo stayed in a rented house at Udupi.