Udupi: Despite repeated warning from authorities against accepting eatables from strangers in trains, people have chosen to ignore the same and in the process get cheated as well as looted.
In one such instance, Kishore, a youth from Bailakere in Shivalli was robbed of his gold chain, ring, laptop and other valuables by an unidentified person who had befriended him in the Mangala Express Train.
Kishore had boarded the train at Madagaon when a stranger had befriended him and offered him a chocolate when the train had passed Byndoor. Kishore did not know anything after that and regained consciousness only when the train reached Indrali station in Udupi and realized that he was robbed of all his valuables including two mobile sets, ATM card and also a cash of Rs 600. A complaint has been lodged with Manipal police.