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Two Notorious Robbers arrested by Peenya police

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Pramesh Jain

Two persons suspected to be robbers were severely injured after they lost control over the scooter they were riding to escape after robbing a phone and collided with a goods vehicle at TVS circle in Peenya on Saturday night .

The injured have been identified as Naveen A, (24),his associate Narasima Murthy T,(23),both hailing from Kunigal in Tumakuru.The police recovered two mobile phones and a dagger from them.

Senior officer told,the incident occurred at around 8.30 pm.The duo had come on a scooter from their hometown to rob mobile phones and return home after robbing the phones but collided with goods vehicle and nabbed by public.

The accused were speeding and lost control and collided with the goods vehicle head on.

The goods vehicle driver Prakash got down to help the duo and found a dagger lying near them,Meanwhile,a few residents who were chasing the accused reached the spot and cornered them.

Prakash alerted the police control room about the incident and Hoysala patrolling staff rushed to the spot and shifted them to a private hospital.

Naveen who was riding the scooter was severely injured and his condition is said to be critical.

Peenya traffic police have registered a case of accident and alerted Law and order police to further investigate the case as they are involved in robbery cases.

The duo suffered serious injuries and were under treatment.Prima Facie one knife and two mobile phone recovered and the police are awaiting their recovery to question them to ascertain their criminal background he added.

Udupi Bhaskar Shetty Murder case: Three including wife son sentenced to life imprisonment by Udupi Court

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Pramesh Jain

Three main accused in the murder of NRI entrepreneur Bhaskar Shetty in 2016, including his wife and son, were on Tuesday sentenced to life by a court in Udupi.

The Udupi district and sessions court Judge J N Subrahmanya awarded life imprisonment to Shetty’s wife Rajeshwari Shetty,Son Navneet Shetty and astrologer Niranjan Bhat.

Shetty (52), a NRI entrepreneur from Indrali in Udupi district was killed in 2016,his body cut into pieces and burnt on a platform meant for holding sacrificial fires with the help of the astrologer.

The court acquitted another accused Raghavendra Bhat, who was accused of destroying evidence.

Niranjan Bhat’s father, Srinivas Bhat, who was also charged with the same offence, had died during the pendency of the hearing. Special public prosecutor Shantaram Shetty had argued the case on behalf of the prosecution.

The prime accused Rajeshwari Shetty is currently out on bail and son Navneet Shetty and Niranjan Bhat are lodged in the Bengaluru prison. The murder took place on July 28, 2016 at Shettys house in Indrali.

His body was later burnt in the ‘homa kunta’ at Niranjan Bhats house at Nandalike in the district. On July 31, Bhaskar Shetty’s mother filed a missing person complaint with the Manipal police.

Police investigation ascertained that Shetty had been murdered and that his body had been burnt in the sacrificial fire at Bhats residence. Rajeshwari and Navneet were arrested on July 7 and Niranjan Bhat, the next day.

Rajeshwari Shetty and Raghavendra were on bail, while Navaneeth Shetty and Bhat were lodged in the Bengaluru Central Prison.

Shrinivas Bhat died during the pendency of the trial. Special Public Prosecutor Shantharam Shetty represented the prosecution.

On Tuesday, Rajeshwari and Raghavendra were present in person, Navaneeth Shetty and Niranjan Bhat were produced virtually from Bengaluru Central Prison through video conference.

The Judge on Tuesday said Rajeshwari will be lodged in Bengalaru Central Prison where  Navaneeth an Niranjan are already lodged.

As Rajeshwari has expressed before the court that she faces threat to her life, the Judge directed the police and the local jail authorities to provide suitable protection to her during her transit and stay.

The case was investigated by CID and Charge Sheeted u/s,302,201,204,120 (B) r/w 34 against the Honorable Udupi District and Session Court at IPC 1.

Special PP Sri.Shantharama Shetti,Senior Advocate represented State during trial as Special Public Prosecutor in this case.

In spite of battery of advocates of the accused Sri.Shantharama Shetti efforts yielded in results and this case ended in conviction.

This case was entrusted to CID DSP ST. Chandrashekara who was deputed as IO,and a team was constituted for investigation under the supervision of Superior officers,Sri.Kishore Chandra,the then DGP,CID,Sri.Pratap Reddy the then ADGP,Smt.Sonia Narang,the then DIGP,Sri . Rajappa and lada Martin the then Superintendent of Police.

There were no eye witnesses in this case.The CID team collected Circumstantial and scientific evidences which ultimately led to the conviction says a release.

Five Trinamool turncoats snap all contacts with BJP

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Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee addresses a press conference at Trinamool Bhavan in Kolkata.

KOLKATA: Five Trinamool Congress (TMC) turncoats who joined the BJP ahead of the recent Assembly elections have snapped all contacts with the saffron camp, a BJP functionary said on Monday. 

“Since the elections results were announced, five former TMC MLAs, whom the BJP had fielded, but could not win, have snapped all contacts with the party. We tried to contact them, but we couldn’t. They are not reachable on the contact numbers available with the party,” said the functionary in Kolkata.

Another functionary said many others are maintaining a distance from the party since the election results came out. 

“They may quit the BJP in the near future. It seems they are in touch with the TMC, but the ruling party has not yet decided its stand on those who are willing to come back,” he said. 

Before the Assembly elections, 33 turncoat MLAs—most of them from the TMC—joined the BJP. The saffron camp fielded 18 of them. But, only five managed to win a seat.

The five MLAs are former minister Rajib Banerjee, Sabyasachi Dutta, Prabir Ghoshal, Wilson Champramary, and Shukra Munda.

Five other TMC turncoats, who had earlier joined the BJP, had also left the saffron camp.They are Sovan Chatterjee, Sonali Guha, Dipendu Biswas, Amal Acharya and Bachhu Hansda.

Meanwhile, TMC MP and spokesperson Saugata Roy said a final decision on whether to accept returning turncoats will be made by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

​The exodus from the Trinamool Congress to the BJP began after the latter made deep inroads into the former’s turf in 2019 by winning 18 of Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats.

Night curfew to continue, shops can stay open till 5 PM: Bihar to unlock from Wednesday

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

With Bihar registering a sharp fall in the coronavirus infection rate, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday announced ease of lockdown from tomorrow. 

“The coronavirus infection has decreased due to the lockdown. While the lockdown will be eased, the night curfew will continue from 7 pm to 5 am. The shops can remain open till 5 PM and government and private officer can function till 4 PM with 50 percent attendance,” the chief minister tweeted further adding that schools and other learning institutions will continue to function online for the next one week.

The CM further cautioned the residents to avoid overcrowding. 

Singapore polytechnic suspends lecturer over racist remarks against Indian-Chinese descent couple

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Racism

SINGAPORE: A Singapore polytechnic lecturer of Chinese-origin has been suspended from teaching duties for allegedly making racist remarks towards an interracial couple of a half-India and a half-Chinese descent, local media reported on Tuesday.

A spokesperson for Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) said the Chinese-origin lecturer has been suspended.

The polytechnic is aware of the video, the Channel News Asia quoted an NP spokesperson on Monday.

“We regret that the individual in question is a member of our staff. We take a very serious view of the matter as the remarks made by the individual are highly offensive, disrespectful and goes against our staff Code of Conduct and values as a community,” said the spokesperson.

“We are investigating this matter internally, including considering the appropriate disciplinary action to be taken. Meanwhile, the staff in question has been suspended from his teaching duties.”

The polytechnic cannot comment further as police investigations are ongoing, said the spokesperson.

The police said on Sunday night that a 60-year-old man was assisting with investigations, after confirming that reports had been lodged and investigations were ongoing.

In the video uploaded by Dave Parkash, a man in a red polo shirt with the word “Singapore” across it can be heard telling Parkash and his girlfriend to date people of their “own race”.

The man in red, who acknowledged he is a “Chinese Singaporean”, then added: “I’ve got nothing against you personally, but I think it’s racist that the Indian prey on a Chinese girl.”

When Parkash, 26, called him a racist, the man in red agreed that he was.

In the video, Parkash said he is “half Indian, half Filipino”, while his girlfriend is “half Singaporean Chinese, half Thai”.

Parkash was with his girlfriend, Jacqueline Ho, 27, on Saturday night in Orchard Road when they were approached by the Chinese man, who said that it was a disgrace for a Chinese girl and an Indian man to be together, among other disparaging remarks.

Shocked at the remark, Parkash confronted the man, while Ho began recording the nine-minute-long video.

Parkash said that by posting the video online, he hoped that people will know it is “not okay to shame others based on their race and skin colour”.

Sharing the video on Facebook on Sunday, Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam wrote: “I used to believe that Singapore was moving in the right direction on racial tolerance and harmony.

Based on recent events, I am not so sure anymore.

“If it’s accurate – then it’s horrible. It seems like more people are finding it acceptable, to make ‘in your face’ racist statements – openly. And some try to explain away, each time something like this happens,” he continued, adding that this is “quite unacceptable” and “very worrying”.

Punjab govt shouldn’t have sold COVID vaccines to private hospitals: P Chidambaram

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This comes amid allegations by the opposition about COVID-19 vaccines being sold to private hospitals at higher prices by the Punjab government for profit.

Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram

NEW DELHI: Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday said Punjab Government should not have sold COVID vaccines to private hospitals.

Responding to a question on the alleged selling of COVID vaccines by Punjab Government to private hospitals, the Congress leader said, “I agree that Punjab government should not have given vaccines to private hospitals. But what is the proportion of vaccines they gave to private hospitals in few days when that policy was in force? Maybe 1-2 per cent. They have corrected it now.”

“The underlying message is that the government has learned from its mistakes. They made two cardinal mistakes and made effort to correct those mistakes. But as usual bluff and bluster, Prime Minister blames the opposition for the mistakes he committed,” said Chidambaram.

This comes amid allegations by the opposition about COVID-19 vaccines being sold to private hospitals at higher prices by the Punjab government for profit.

His remarks came after PM Modi in his televised address on Monday announced that the Centre will provide free COVID-19 vaccine to all Indian citizens above 18 years of age from June 21 and it will handle the 25 per cent vaccination that was with states till now under the liberalised plan announced earlier.

The Prime Minister said the Centre will procure 75 per cent of the total production of the vaccine doses and provide them free to the states. No state government would be spending anything on vaccines. 

Covid vaccination policy: PM Modi blames it on states, Opposition faults government

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PM Narendra Modi

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday sought to point fingers at states that suggested decentralisation of the rollout, to deflect blame for framing the widely criticised Covid vaccination policy that came into effect on May 1.

​A similar line of argument earlier came from NITI Aayog member V K Paul, who had squarely blamed the states for messing up the campaign.

But CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury criticised the PM’s reasoning. “The Union government and the BJP must learn to accept responsibility for its failures when people of this country have paid with their lives. This incessant focus on spin and PR is an assault on and insult to the millions who perished in the pandemic,” he said. Yechury attributed the latest policy shift to pressure from the Supreme Court’s observations. 

Opposition-ruled states broadly welcomed the PM’s decision. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said “as the Prime Minister stressed multiple times that health is a state subject, it will be appropriate for each state to be given complete control over registration, validation and administration procedures.”

Chhattisgarh health minister T S Singh Deo had a pithy one-liner: “der aaye dusrust aaye” (better late than never). Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said he had written twice to the PM and the Union health minister for Central procurement and distribution of vaccines for all age groups. “This was the only feasible solution,” he said.

Against BJP’s vaccine but will take government of India’s vaccine: Akhilesh Yadav on policy change

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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday welcomed the Centre’s decision to provide free vaccines to states for all above 18 years starting June 21, and asked people to get themselves vaccinated.

The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also said that he would get himself vaccinated.

“Seeing the public outrage, the government instead of politicising the corona vaccine announced that it would give the vaccines doses. We were against the BJP’s vaccine but welcome the vaccine of ‘Government of India’. I will also get vaccinated. I appeal to those who could not get vaccinated for the lack of vaccines to do so,” he said in a tweet in Hindi.

In an address to the nation on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the central government will provide free vaccines to states for all above 18 years starting June 21.

When the coronavirus vaccine was launched in January, Yadav had sought to know from the government how the drive will be conducted and when the poor will get the shot free of cost.

The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister had said he has faith in doctors of the country but not the government.

Yadav had also triggered a controversy, saying he will not get himself injected with a “BJP vaccine” against coronavirus.

“We have full faith in our doctors but not in the government. It is good that coronavirus vaccine has come out but only believe what the doctors say, not Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath,” he had said.

SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav had got himself vaccinated at a private hospital here on Monday.

The BJP’s Uttar Pradesh unit had described it as a “good message”, and said SP workers and its president should take inspiration from him.

MPs office files cheating complaint against Impersonator

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Pramesh Jain

The Jayanagar police have registered an impersonation and cheating against a person who is claiming to be PA to Bengaluru south MP, Tejasvi Surya and cheating people by offering to sell Remdesivir injections .

Mr.Prakash in a complaint,said that the accused  identified himself as Shivalingaiah and contacted Manjula,whose relative was admitted in the hospital for the Covid treatment.The accused offered to sell five vials of Remdesivir for Rs 10,000.

When the matter was brought to the notice of the MP office,Mr.Prakash called Shivalingaiah to confirm his claim before approaching the police.

The accused is not only impersonating to defame the MP but also cheating people,Mr.Prakash said in his complaint .

Based on a complaint filed by Bhanu Prakash, from MPs office,on Friday the police are now on the lookout for the accused .

We are trying to track him down through the mobile phone he was using and we will nab the impersonator soon who is cheating people said a senior officer.

Bengaluru: NCB busts international level drug racket, seizes hashish Oil worth Rs 25 lakh

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Pramesh Jain

The Narcotics Control Bureau officials on Thursday busted an international drug racket and arrested two persons from Kerala who were smuggling Hashish oil to Doha by international  courier concealed in backpacks.

The accused has been identified as,R Khan and his associate S Hussain hailing from Kerala.

Acting on a specific intelligence,a team led by NCB Bengaluru Zonal Unit intercepted and seized 13 backpack bags with 1.2 kgs of hashish oil which were mixed in a total consignment of 70 such bags.

Following the leads the officials arrested R Khan and his associate S Hussain were apprehended at Bengaluru on Sunday and recovered 2.6 kg of Hashish from them.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the syndicate is based in Kasargod (Kerala) and is involved in trafficking of Hashish from India to Qatar,Amit Ghawate,Zonal Director,NCB, Bengaluru,said.

This seizure is in continuation to the seizures of substantial quantities of Hashish already seized by NCB, Bengaluru in the year 2019 and 2020. 

The present seizure is an indication that this syndicate which was lying low for over a year due to restrictions in flight movement,have again commenced their operations.

Travel restrictions in Qatar has created a dip in supply of drugs in Qatar and the Kasargod based syndicate is trying to traffic drugs using alternate modus operandi including concealing in couriers and parcels.

This syndicate also caters to supply of Hashish and other drugs to Maldives and Srilanka,This Hashish was concealed in 195 small bags and travel pouches and was meant to be trafficked to Doha (Qatar) by courier.The accused have been booked under NDPS Act he added.

Finally NCB acknowledges the dedicated efforts of Sh.Amit Ghawate IRS (Zonal Director, NCB
Bengaluru) ,Sh Venugopal Kurup,AD and other officers associated to the case at NCB,

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