Tumakuru: In a shocking incident, a man broke into temples and stole money at Vaddarakuppe and Kurudihalli Villages in Kottagere Hobli of the Taluk.
The thieves broke open the hundi in front of Maramma of Vaddarakuppe Village in Kottagere Hobli and Maramma Devi Temple in Kurudihalli Village and decamped with the money.
The priests of the Temple, as usual, had offered prayers to the deity in the evening and locked the Temple. The thieves, who were waiting with the intention of committing the theft, broke the lock of the hundi kept in front of the Temple and fled with the money.
