Archives for March 2021

Pramesh Jain

Cab Driver arrested for stealing LED TVs from Hotels,Nine LED TV Worth Rs.2.7 Lakh Recovered by Upparpet police:

The West Division police of Upparpet police have arrested 32 year old cab driver for stealing LED TVs and electronic goods from the Lodges and hotels after he checked in as guest.

The accused has been identified as,Vijay Ashok Kale Hiremath,32,year old hailing from Hyderabad.

Senior officer told Media persons,a complaint was registered in upparpet police station by a hotel manager of Vishnu Paradise who stated in his complaint when he was checking rooms after the customers checkout from the room we usually clean the room and check once anything missing.

When our housekeeping staff went to room to clean he noticed a LED TV was missing in the room and we have a doubt on the last customer who checked out might stolen the Micromax TV worth of Rs.12k.

Based on the complaint,Upparpet police inspector visited the lodge and inspected the crime scene and found vital clue from the hotel and based on which a team was formed.

The team which swooped down to track the culprit the team analyzed the CCTV footage and the team swung into action and with the technical inputs the team zeroed in on accused identified as,Vijay Ashok Kale Hiremath from majestic bus stand while he was trying to board a bus and was trying to escape.

The team took him to station for questioning a detailed questioning by the team the accused confessed the crime and based on his statement the team recovered nine led TVs and four phones  worth Rs 2.7 lakh from him which has stolen from different hotels around majestic.

The team grilled him to ascertain reason behind the crime the accused spilled the beans and it has revealed that Hiremath is native of Hyderabad and a cab driver by profession.He lost job one year ago and started stealing valuables from hotels to make quick money he said in his statement and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP,P Ravi,PI,Shivaswamy CB,and his whole team for the commendable job done by them who has nabbed a cab driver who used to steal electronic gadgets from hotels where he used to check in as guest a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

Ramesh Jarkiholi Sleaze CD case:SIT Trapped 5 suspects in first day who involved in Ramesh Jarkiholi CD Scandal:

A day after formation of SIT,the officials on friday picked up five persons including a woman who are linked to the CD.

,A seven-member SIT team has been formed to probe the scandal involving former state minister Ramesh Jarkiholi.Basavaraj Bommai,Home minister of Karnataka,had ordered the formation of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on March 10.

Bengaluru City Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant told reporters,The seven-member SIT team will be headed by Additional Commissioner of Police,(West)Soumendu Mukherjee,with senior officials, including CCB Joint Commissioner,Sandeep Patil, DCP, Central MN Anucheth,CCB DCP, Crime-1, Ravikumar,with,ACP,CCB,Dharmendra will assist the SIT in its probe along with, Police Inspectors,as,Maruthi B of Cubbon park police station and Prashanth Babu of CCB technical wing officers will probe the case and if there is a need of more officers in case the team had can add more officers and men he added.

Senior officer told media persons,The police who have completed the tracking before the formation of SIT stepped up probe and detained a media person Bhuvith from Ramnagar.

He was with the girl friend when the police swoop down and caught them.

Based on their information the police detained one more person in Vijayanagar and another person from Chamarajpet.

They were brought to SIT office in CID for questioning

The SIT is now probing to find out who are all behind the CD and their handlers.

These accused are said to be in touch with Dinesh Kallahalli and handed over CD.

A meeting was held on Friday morning to finalise the members of this SIT formed to investigate the scandal that led to Karnataka ex minister Ramesh Jarkiholi’s resignation.

Within hours of its formation,the SIT detained around nine individuals including a women who is said to be a roommate of alleged victim in the CD.

The SIT team pressed into action after formation the team which had prepared list of suspects after formation in 2 hours the team detained five persons including a woman,the team detained suspects from Vijayanagar,Chamarajapet, Chikkamagaluru,Vijayapura and Ramanagar.

One of the suspect has been identified as Bhuvit Aldur,a resident of Chikkamagaluru was picked by SIT team after getting technical evidence against all the suspects.

Sources said that the kingpin and mastermind behind this is still absconding and in preliminary Probe it was found that the CD has been uploaded from Bengaluru using Russia IP address as proxy ID and the CD was created by a expert they are questioning all the five suspects.

The team has found that the CD was exchanged in RT Nagar by these suspects and they have handed over the CD to Dinesh kalahalli near one of the Metro station.

A team of the SIT has left for Andhra Pradesh to locate and detain a person of interest considered close to a prominent leader.

The SIT has intensified the probe and grilling the suspects to know who are behind this conspiracy and how they have executed it and it is alleged that totally six persons are from media in which four are and two masterminds are on run sources added.

SIT team has intensified the probe to nab all the masterminds and kingpin of the alleged fake CD and in coming days the prominent leader behind the major conspiracy will be exposed says Balachandra Jarkiholi.

Ordering the formation of an SIT to probe the matter, Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai told reporters, In a letter,Ramesh Jarkiholi has said that there was a politically motivated attempt to defame him. He has requested a thorough investigation into the case.”

“Based on this, after having discussions with the chief minister and senior police officers,we have decided to form an SIT(Special Investigation Team) to probe who conspired in this case and where the CD was prepared,” Basavaraj Bommai had said.

Speaking to reporters here,HD Kumaraswamy said the state government has handed over the  CD case to Special Investigation Team (SIT).

Against whom and on what basis the investigation will be conducted,he questioned, adding,I don’t know on what basis the probe was ordered.

The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) authorities might claim the CD is fake and nothing more can be expected. Several such cases, including former minister H Y Meti’s case, received a clean chit. No accused were punished in such cases, Kumaraswamy said.

Jakarta: A tourist bus plunged into a ravine on Indonesia’s main island of Java after its brakes apparently malfunctioned, killing at least 27 people and injuring 39 others, police and rescuers said Thursday.

The bus was carrying a group of Islamic junior high school students, teachers and parents from the West Java province town of Subang when the accident happened late Wednesday on a winding road, said local police chief Eko Prasetyo Robbyanto.

He said the bus was on its way back to Subang from a pilgrimage site in the province’s Tasikmalaya district when it plunged into the 20-metre-deep ravine after the driver lost control of the vehicle in an area with a number of sharp declines in Sumedang district.

Police were still investigating the cause of the accident, but survivors told authorities that the vehicle’s brakes apparently malfunctioned, Robbyanto said.

Bandung search and rescue agency chief Deden Ridwansah said the 27 bodies and 39 injured people were taken to a hospital and a nearby health clinic, including a body of a young boy who was pinned under the overturned bus and pulled from the wreckage Thursday morning.

Thirteen of the injured were treated for serious injuries, Ridwansah said. The driver was among those killed.

Television video showed police and rescuers from the National Search and Rescue Agency evacuating injured victims and carrying the dead to ambulances. Grieving relatives waited for information about their loved ones at Sumedang’s general hospital, others tried to identify the bodies laid at a morgue.

Road accidents are common in Indonesia because of poor safety standards and infrastructure.

In December 2019, 35 people were killed when a passenger bus fell into a 80-metre-deep ravine and crashed into a fast-flowing river on Sumatra island. In early 2018, 27 people killed after a packed tourist bus plunged from a hill in West Java’s hilly area.

New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India (EGI) on Tuesday expressed “shock and disbelief” at the recent report of a group of ministers (GoM) suggesting steps to “neutralise” the negative narrative against the government.

It said the GoM report illustrates government’s “increasingly draconian attitude” against any critique and inquiry by the press.

“The Editors Guild of India expresses shock and disbelief at the manner in which a group of ministers (GoM) has prepared a report with an embedded toolkit to control the narrative about the government in the media.

“This GoM, comprising five cabinet and four ministers of state, had been constituted by the government in mid-2020, without any provocation and at a time when various press freedom and democracy indices show a rapid slide,” the EGI said in a statement.

It said that the report, which was prepared at the end of 2020 and has recently emerged in the media, “further illustrates the government’s increasingly draconian attitude against any critique and inquiry by the press.”

The suggestions from the GoM report hint at increased surveillance and targeting of writers and journalists who depart from the government’s narrative, the editors’ body said.

It also said, “One of the more disturbing instances is the suggestion by a Union Minister that refers to developing a strategy to neutralise the people who are writing against the government without facts and set false narratives/spread fake news.”

The EGI said that in the absence of any clarity on what will constitute fake news and the process to be followed, such observations smack of an intention to simply muzzle any criticism of the government.

Since the report was made public, some of those who have been named in the report have denied any involvement in its drafting, it said.

It added that the preparation of the GoM report and its debilitating import on media freedom and journalists is a major concern for EGI, which demands that the government, which is supposed to safeguard constitutional values of freedom of expression should make it clear that it is committed to the plurality of views in the media.

The report of the Group of Ministers has suggestions of tracking 50 negative and 50 positive influencers on social media and neutralise people who are writing against the government without facts to spread fake news .

The GoM comprising nine ministers — Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar, Smriti Irani, S Jaishankar, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Hardeep Singh Puri, Babul Supriyo, Anurag Thakur and Kiren Rijiju — had held six meetings between June 14 and July 19 2020 before putting together the 97-page report.

New Delhi: Farmer unions on Wednesday called for a Bharat bandh on March 26, when their protest at Delhi’s borders against the Centre’s three new farm laws completes four months.

Farmer leader Buta Singh Burjgill said farmers along with trade unions will protest the hike in fuel prices and privatisation of railways on March 15.

“We will observe a complete Bharat bandh on March 26, when our protest against the three farm laws completes four months. The peaceful bandh will remain effective from morning till evening,” he told reporters at the Singhu border.

On March 19, the farmers will observe “Mandi Bachao-Kheti Bachao” day, he said.

The farmer unions have also decided to celebrate Shaheedi divas’ of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, Burjgill added.

Farmers leaders also said that copies of the new farm laws will be burnt during Holika Dahan’ on March 28.

Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at the Delhi border points — Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur — for over four months, demanding the repeal of farm laws and a legal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP) for their crops.

The protesting farmers have expressed apprehension that these laws would pave the way for the dismantling of the MSP system, leaving them at the “mercy” of big corporations.

However, the government has maintained that the new laws will bring better opportunities to farmers and introduce new technologies in agriculture.