Bengaluru: A 40-year-old knife-wielding man struck terror at a shop on Indiranagar’s high street over the weekend, applied superglue to a woman employee’s hands and stuck them to the desk before snatching her gold mangalya chain worth Rs 4.5 lakh.Prabhuraj alias Raj, a resident of Surya City, was nabbed by bystanders in a dramatic chase through a busy road. He was wearing a helmet and gloves to hide his identity. Videos of the incident went viral on Tuesday.Police said Jayashree S, 23, a resident of Domlur, has been working as a receptionist at Premium Shoe & Bag Repair on 100ft Road in Indiranagar for the past three years. She manages operations of the shop owned by Ranjith Kumar.Around 11.45am Saturday, the man in a helmet rushed into the shop, jumped on to the reception counter and told Jayashree that someone was coming to kill him.
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A frightened Jayashree tried to call Ranjith. Suddenly, Prabhuraj shut her mouth with his hands and held a knife to her face, saying he would kill her if she raised an alarm.He smeared superglue — said to be Fevikwik, instant adhesive — on her hands, pressed them hard on the desk so that she remained rooted near the desk and gagged her before removing 35gm gold mangalsutra. When Prabhuraj attempted to flee, Jayashree freed herself and screamed for help. The accused warned people against stopping him.By then, Ranjith and others tried to overpower him. Prabhuraj attacked Ranjith before pulling Jayashree out of the shop and trying to escape with the mangalya chain. Members of the public and traffic police chased and caught the accused.Deputy commissioner of police (East) Vikram Amathe said the woman was safe and unharmed.BOXHe’s mentally ill: CopsPrabhuraj worked as a delivery boy of a restaurant chain before he was sacked recently. A senior officer said the accused claimed his wife was unwell and he wanted money for her treatment. The accused claimed he asked the victim to give her the chain; when she didn’t, he resorted to violence.
