Archives for July 2021

Pramesh Jain

The Special squad of Kengeri sub division police on Monday busted one more Inter-state drug racket and caught two persons transporting 110 kgs of marijuana into the city from VIshakhapatnam.

Senior officer,told reporters,as war on drugs a special operation is being conducted in across city in which based on the instructions by senior officers a special Anti-Narcotics drugs squad team has been set up in each division to curb the drug abuse in the city.

The Kengeri Sub-Division Special Squad team headed by ACP,UD Krishna Kumar received a credible information that a SUV carrying huge quantity of drugs will pass from nagarbhavi area.

Based on  specific inputs,a team of police led by ACP,UD Krishnakumar intercepted a SUV near Nagarabhavi BDA complex and found Narcotics stuffed in gunny bags and were dumped at the backseats of the SUV based on which the team arrested both of them.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and we have recovered the narcotics stuffed in gunny bags.The total value of the seized Marijuna estimated to be around Rs 50 lakh,the officer said .

Initial probe revealed that the accused Appanna and Subramani are drug peddlers in and around Bengaluru.

The accused earlier used to get the consignment from their contacts in Andhra Pradesh but due to the lock down and increasing patrolling, the supply was affected.

Unable to get the consignments from their regular links,the duo approached the sellers in VIsakhapatnam and got the consignment by road .

However the police received credible information that the accused had gone to Andhra Pradesh to get the supply and returned to the city in an SUV.

Meanwhile the Govnidapura police arrested two African nationals and recovered 55 grams of cocaine worth Rs 4.7 lakh from them.

The accused ( name and identity withheld ) were caught red handed while they were waiting for their customers to deliver the drugs.

The police found that the duo did not have travel documents with them and were staying illegally a case under NDPS and Foreigners Act has been registered and further investigation is on he added.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,S Murugan, DCP East,Dr SD Sharanappa,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP,UD Krishna Kumar PIS,as,Lohit Gowda,Prakash,and their whole special squad team who has done a good piece of investigation and nabbed the notorious drug peddlers including Nigerian National and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added

Pramesh Jain

In an effort to improve the overall efficiency and improve prosecution rates in cyber crime cases, the State Police chief, Praveen Sood on Saturday issued a circular directing the investigating officers (IO) to take extreme care while handling digital evidence.

This is to ensure integrity and authenticity while taking the cases to their logical end,

According to the State Police chief,Mr.Praveen Sood,Instead of relying on private players,Mr. Sood asked the IOs to use the support and guidance of staff from Cybercrime,Economic Offence and Narcotics (CEN),Station or the staff of Cyber Forensic units of CID, or the State Forensic Science Lab for the professional touch and care.

While releasing a set of standard operation procedures (SOPs)and guidelines,Mr.Sood stated that the purpose is to provide police and prosecution systematic guidance to help them understand the technical and legal issues that may arise while handling electronic evidence at the crime scene investigations.

Investigation of any criminal case involves identification,collection and preservation of evidence to support the theory taken by the IO.

However,in the wake of significant rise in gathering electronic evidence including desktops, laptops,mobile phones,handheld devices and DVRs and CDRs,the IOs have to exercise special care while handling procedural,technical and digital aspects,the circular added.

Admissibility of digital evidence in the court heavily depends upon how it was handled and taken into possession,Mr.Sood reiterated.

According to a senior officer, there are two important factors while visiting any cyber crime scene. This includes quick recovery of evidence for preservation, and secondly containing the area to gather more details.

Quick recovery is important as the evidence is volatile and fragile.Mishandling the evidence leads to destruction of evidence permanently and losing the case eventually.

As per statistics,the conviction rate in cyber crime cases in the state are low, and a leading cause for dismissal of cases is the way the evidence is handled.

Pramesh Jain

Fire and emergency service personnel rescued a  farmer,who entered a pipeline to connect a water pipe to his land,was stuck inside the pipeline for over two hours at singribovidoddi village in Ramanagar on Sunday.

The farmer Govindaraju Rajanna owned a piece of land located on both sides of the bypass road constructed as part of the ongoing works of Expressway between Bengaluru and Mysuru.

Senior officials said,water linking pipelines were laid on Rajanna’s land.To get a water connection to his land from the pipeline,Rajanna had entered the pipeline at around 11 am and crawled about 200 feet.

As a heap of mud had blocked the pipeline, he tried to pass through it but got stuck inside.His son Venugopal,who was monitoring this from outside sensed danger,when there was no movement and called fire control room for help.

The rescue team with police officials rushed to the spot and managed to contact Rajanna to ascertain his exact location.

He was finding it difficult to breathe and the arrangement was made to supply oxygen into the pipeline.

It was not possible for our men to enter the pipeline to pull him out.It was decided to break open the pipeline.An earthmover vehicle was brought to the spot and it dug up the ground and broke the pipeline,enabling us to get close to Rajanna.

The officials removed the heap of mud and rescued Rajanna within one and a half hours of the operation.

The entire village camped at the spot to witness the rescue operations and cheered when Rajanna was pulled out.

Minutes after the rescue he told people that he had gone to install a water pipe through the pipeline to his land and got stuck in the mud inside.I shouted and able to tell my son what happened and that helped me to get rescued,he said.

Pramesh Jain

The South Division police of Jayanagar police who were on lookout for the seven member gang who hacked the financier in broad daylight near Banashankari metro station.

The incident shocked the people as the assailants who were armed with long and sharp weapons attacked the financier when he was parking the car and sped away.

High drama prevailed at the city court complex premises for sometime on Monday when a group of seven assailants involved in gruesome murder of a 44-year-old financier near Banashankari metro station in broad day light on Friday.

Senior officer said,the accused,who are associates of Wilson garden rowdy Nagaraj alias Naga,tried to surrender before the 37th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate through their advocate,but the magistrate refused to hear their plea.

The accused were later seen sitting in the corridor before the police came and picked them up .

The accused were on the run since the murder and realized that the police are closing in on them.Realizing that they have no option left,they tried to surrender minutes before the police take them into custody.

The accused associates of rowdy from Shanti Nagar Lingaraj alias Linga who was eliminated by his rival wilson garden rowdy Nagaraj alias Naga.

Naga who was arrested and lodged in parappana Agarahara executed the murder from sitting inside the prison in December last year.

The deceased Madan,though did not have any criminal cases against him,was earlier associated with Linga till he was murdered.

He reportedly changed his loyalty and became friends with Naga to save himself and his business .

The accused realized that Madan had betrayed and killed him to avenge,a police officer part of the special team said . 

The accused have been taken into custody and the police are now questioning to ascertain the details of the murder.

Madan,N,resident of Lakksandra running a finance and real estate business was under the radar of the accused .

On Friday the accused followed Madan in three bikes and hacked him to death before fleeing.

The gruesome incident was recorded on CCTV and the police pieced together the evidence and tracked them down to the magistrate court where they came to surrender on Monday he added.

Pramesh Jain

The south division police stepped up red alert following a gruesome murder of a 44 year old financier by an armed gang near Banashankari metro station in broad daylight on Friday.

The deceased has been identified as Madan N,resident of Lakkasandra,and hailing from Doddaballapura.

Senior officer told media persons,after visiting the spot and collecting information from the Jayanagar police inspector and passer by.

He said the victim had gone to buy vegetables at Banashankari market and was returning home in his car when the assailants intercepted him at around 11.45 am.

Madan was former employee with a private firm who quit the job to start finance and real estate business eight years ago.Before he could react,the gang attacked him with lethal weapons and escaped.

It is alleged that the assailants had followed him on bikes carrying lethal weapons wrapped in plastic covers and escaped in different directions.

The murder was shocked people who was passing by and witnessed the attack as mute spectators .

The attack was recorded in a CCTV installed at a nearby area.

Based on the complaint filed by Mohan N,former gram panchayath member and elder brother of the deceased,the Jayanagar police have registered a case of murder and are investigating .

We suspect that old rivalry could be the reason behind the murder as few associates of a rowdies who were murdered in gang war assumed that Madan had provided financial assistant to eliminate their gang leaders in the area.

We have some clues on the assailants and trying to track them down he added.