Periyapatna: Even as the incident of a home along woman being murdered and her gold mangalya stolen is still fresh in the minds of the people of the taluk, a man was caught after he made a bid to kill a home alone woman and rob her of her gold chain yesterday. The accused was locked inside the house by the public till the Police arrived and arrested him.
It may be recalled that on Feb. 3, miscreants had barged into the house of a flour mill owner Indresh and had killed his wife before decamping with the gold mangalya chain. Surprisingly, the accused who made a bid to kill a woman yesterday is also a flour mill owner and has been identified as Mallikarjuna.
