Special Correspondent
Even as work on widening the Mysuru-Bengaluru highway is progressing at a brisk pace, two cases of highway robberies have been reported on the busy stretch of road over the last one month.
A car proceeding from Bengaluru to Kerala was waylaid near Budanur last month and the occupant was forced to hand over ₹ 1 lakh to the robbers; a similar case was reported on the same stretch of road near Hosa Budanur last week, putting the Mandya district police on alert.