Mangalore : Two women, a mother and a daughter were robbed of valuables worth Rs 7 lakhs by the driver of an autorickshaw which they boarded to attend a wedding at Bikarnakatta.
The women Farhan Kausar (28) accompanied by her mother Khalida and son hailing from Vijayanagar in Bangalore had alighted from a bus at Jyothi and had boarded the auto.
It is learnt, very soon the driver spoke to someone over mobile phone and then took the auto to an isolated place where two masked men intercepted the auto and looted the women of valuables after threatening them with weapons. They even injured them with scratches and then the women abandoned at some unidentified plac.e
The women later informed their relatives over phone and were admitted to hospitals.