City Police Commissioner B. Dayannda felicitated a KSRTC Volvo bus conductor and driver for catching a thief after a hot chase and recovering ₹5 lakh which the accused along with his associates had stolen in the moving bus.
The driver T.N. Somappa, driving the bus from Thirunallar to Bengaluru on Thursday, recalled that the accused hailed from Uttar Pradesh and had boarded the bus at Chidambaram to go to Majestic. He asked Somappa to drop him to Majestic by 5.30 p.m. as he had to catch a train to his native place.
Somappa assured to drop him on time, but when the bus reached Electronics city, the accused and his associate in a hurry asked Somappa to stop the bus and said they had to get down.
