Mangaluru: In another incident, ₹14.74 lakh was stolen from a footwear shop in Puttur.

Five tyres of a truck, worth ₹1.85 lakh, were stolen when the vehicle was parked near Shirur toll gate in Byndoor police limits on Wednesday night.

In his complaint to the police, truck owner-cum-driver Purushottama Tandela of Harawada, Uttara Kannada, said he was driving the 16-wheel vehicle with his son Sahil from Karwar towards Udupi on Wednesday. As he felt sleepy on reaching the Shirur toll gate, he pulled the vehicle to the road flank and slept inside the truck at around 11.30 p.m.

When he woke up at 4 a.m. on Thursday and started the vehicle, the truck leaned to its left side. Upon examination, he found four tyres on the rear left side were missing and so was the spare wheel.

Byndoor police have registered a case and are investigating.