Mysuru: The Mysuru Railway Police have arrested three persons on charges of assaulting a person and robbing him of Rs.12,800 cash and a mobile phone worth about Rs.9,000 in the early hours of Mar.19. The miscreants were arrested on Mar.23 early morning — within 48 hours of committing the crime. The arrested are H.E. Irfan Pasha of Holenarasipur and Salman Pasha and Shahid Pasha of Hassan.
On Mar.19 at about 2.15 am, the victim, identified as B.S. Sharanappa, a resident of Pragathi Nagar in Hassan, was walking on the railway track from the bus stand to go to his house near Hassan Railway Station, when a group of five youths aged about 25 years approached him and asked him to give money for cigarettes and match box. When Sharanappa refused to give money, one of the youths threw chilli powder on his (Sharanappa) eyes, hit him on the head with a beer bottle besides assaulting him with a knife on his hands. The youths then robbed him of Rs.12,800 cash and a mobile phone and fled from the spot.
