A gang of dacoits reportedly waylaid the car of a contractor from Kerala in Gonikoppa police station limits in Kodagu in the early hours of Saturday and robbed him of ₹50 lakh.
The complainant Shamjad, a 38-year-old contractor, residing in Kodakkad in Mallapuram district of Kerala, was returning to his native through Kodagu district in the wee hours of Saturday when his car was waylaid by a gang of 10 to 15 people in three vehicles near Devarapura in Gonikoppa police station limits.
The complainant said he had melted his wife’s jewellery in Kozhikode and taken the gold bar weighing 750 grams to a jewellery maker on Ashoka Road in Mysuru from whom he collected ₹50 lakh. “He decided to sell the gold in Mysuru after learning that he will get a good price,” according to the complaint.
