Rs.1 lakh stolen from hotel room

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JULY 21. Mystery shrouds the theft of Rs. one lakh cash from the hotel room of a civil contractor in Upparpet Police Station limits in the City on Friday night.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police (West), Mr. U. Nissar Ahmed told The Hindu that Rs. one lakh in cash was stolen from the room of Mr. Yadhav Venkoba, a civil contractor of Raichur District, who was staying at a hotel in Gandhinagar.

It was said that on Friday night, Mr. Venkoba and his friend, Mr. Basavana Gowda, reportedly met Dr. Raja Venkatappa Naik, Surpur MLA (Gulbarga District), at the hotel room.

After the meeting, Mr. Venkoba reportedly paid Rs. one lakh to Dr. Naik, who was also staying in the same hotel. The MLA reportedly took the money and kept it in the room and left the hotel after sometime.

The MLA, who remembered that he had left the cash behind, he returned to the room, only to find that the cash missing. Mr. Ahmed said that although Dr. Naik and Mr. Venkoba were friends, the money was actually stolen from the contractor's room and not from the MLA's room as was being rumoured.

In the FIR filed by the police before the court, it has been stated the cash was stolen from the contractor's room, Mr. Ahmed said.

The Upparpet police are investigating.

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