Two men in a motorcycle snatched a gold chain worth Rs. one lakh from a woman in Basaveshwara Nagar on Thursday morning.
The victim, Ashwini C.S., a resident of Mahaganapati Nagar was learning to ride moped near her house when the two men on motorcycle approached her on the pretext of enquiring an address.
The pillion-rider snatched the gold chain and managed to escape even as Ms. Ashwini tried to catch him. The Basaveshwara Nagar police have taken up a case of robbery and are investigating.
Similarly, an elderly woman was robbed of her gold chain worth Rs. two lakh by two men on motorcycle on Wednesday.