Archives for July 2021

Pramesh Jain

A 28-year-old home maker gave a tough fight to an armed chain snatcher to save her Thali (gold chain)in front of her house in Koira village in the outskirts of the city on Friday.

The woman identified as Navitha Devraj was standing outside the house after seeking off her husband who went to Bengaluru for work.

minutes later,the accused,armed with a knife and covering his face with a handscraf approached her and grabbed her gold chain weighing 64 grams.

It was a sudden attack but Navitha held her chain tightly and started shouting while grabbing the knife from one hand to stop him from attacking.

Due to this tough resistance,the accused pulled out a partial chain of 24 grams and escaped leaving the knife behind.

Neighbouring who heard Navitha screams rushed to her help and searched for the accused but by then he managed to escape . 

Navitha saved 38 grams of her gold chain while the remaining 24 grams the accused had taken away.

Navitha later came to Devaraju,a shopkeeper and narrated the incident who rushed back and informed the police she said in her complaint.

On Saturday the couple visited the police station and filed a formal complaint while handing over the knife to the police,which the accused had left behind.

The Vishwanathapura police have taken up a case and are investigating.

Pramesh Jain

Karnataka’s Minister of Health,Family Welfare, and Medical Education,Dr K Sudhakar,has directed health officials to take all precautions to prevent disease outbreaks in the state’s flood-affected areas.

Dr K Sudhakar,Minister for Health & Family
Welfare and Medical Education,has instructed health officials to take all precautions to prevent outbreak of any disease in the flood hit regions of the State.

Dr K Sudhakar reviewed the health department’s flood preparedness in a meeting with Health Commissioner K V Trilok Chandra, Principal Secretary of Medical Education department,MD of National Health Mission Arundhathi Chandrashekar were present at the review meeting.

health officials at Arogya Soudha in Bengaluru.

The officials were instructed to spray disinfectant in places which are affected by floods.The officials have also been told to be on high alert in flood hit regions and educate people about potential outbreak of diseases.

Vulnerable segments such as senior citizens, pregnant women and children must be given special attention during these floods,the Minister added.

The second wave of Covid is not over yet.Ensure that free masks and sanitizers are distributed to people in flood relief centres,the Minister told the officials.

The spread of communicable diseases such as chikangunya and dengue is low this year but the department needs to be on guard for any spike in cases in the coming days.

The Minister told the officials to make use of mobile health units in case there are no primary health centres or government hospitals close to flood relief centres.

In worst affected districts,the Department must appoint nodal officers to coordinate with the district administration,he instructed.

Parmesh Jain

Bengaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) on Friday morning conducted another Operation Rowdy and raided active gangs house and during raid they have allegedly seized five daggers and two lakh cash so far from one of the houses of the active and notorious rowdies, the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch informed.

The raids have been conducted at the houses of Wilson Garden Naga,Cycle Ravi,Silent Sunil, JB Narayan,and their associates,said Bengaluru Central Crime Branch.

A massive raid was conducted after the murder of Joseph alias Babli who was hacked to death by the other gang of Rowdies inside the bank and their CCTV footage shows they were armed with lethal weapons and were seen coming in two wheeler with lethal weapons.

Senior officer told media persons,A Massive raid was conducted by our officers and men in the early morning on the active and Notorious rowdies who are still active in their illegal activities.

During raid we found Two lakh cash and one dagger were allegdly seized from the house of Wilson Garden Naga,while four daggers seized from other rowdies.A total of 45 houses were searched by the CCB.

During the raids on Friday, police found a cache of 254 Aadhaar cards at the house of a rowdy sheeter Shahnawaz from Shivajinagar,a known associate of Ravi.Shahnawaz is also absconding.

We are yet to ascertain as to why he had collected Aadhaar cards of so many people.We suspect it may be related to some property issues, a senior officer said.Police also recovered five daggers and Rs.2 lakh cash from the houses raided.

Changing strategy on Friday,CCB targeted all members of the most notorious groups currently active.Of the four main rowdies targeted,only Ravi is absconding.

The other three were there at their residences during the raids.They and their associates are being questioned about their activities.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Joint CP Crime,Sandeep Patil DCP Crime-1,KP Ravikumar,DCP Crime-2,BS Angadi,ACPs,as,Nagaraj,Parameshwara, Hanumantharaya,Jaganath Rai,Dharmendra HN,Gautham Kumar,and PIs,and staff who has conducted a surprise and a massive operation on Rowdy sheeters who are still active and there would be zero tolerance for rowdy activities and the drive taken up will go a long way in controlling the menace he added.

Pramesh Jain

Three police personnel of RMC Yard including inspector suspended for deriliction of duty for forcing street vendor to smoke Ganja

A woman inspector and two of her colleagues were suspended on Thursday after a police inquiry found them guilty of forcing a street vendor to smoke ganja and fixing him in a false drugs case when he failed to pay the bribe. 

Bengaluru City Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant issued the suspension order of RMC Yard police inspector, Parvathamma,PSI, Anjinappa and constable,Umesh till further orders following a report by DCP,North,Dharmender Kumar Meena. 

The case exposes police high-handedness in Bengaluru.The action by the police top brass came after the victim tried to kill himself because of the drug stigma,and his family filed a complaint. 

Senior officer told reporters,On July 14,around 8 pm,RMC Yard police inspector,Parvathamma S picked up two men,Shivaraj and Nagendra,who were chatting outside their home near Poojamma Temple Road in Goraguntepalya.

She bundled them into her patrol car and took them to the police station.The men had to spend the entire night in the lock-up without even knowing what their crime was.Police officers allegedly demanded bribes for their release. 

The next day,police let Nagendra go after booking him in a petty case but Shivaraj,45,wasn’t so lucky.He was forced to smoke a ganja cigarette and take a medical test.

Eventually, police booked him under the stringent Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.Shivaraj got bail on July 17 but was so traumatised by the turn of events that he consumed poison in order to kill himself. 

His family rushed him to hospital in the nick of time and doctors were able to save him. 

The family decided to escalate the matter and complained to the DCP on July 19.Besides Parvathamma,they named, sub-inspector Anjanappa and two police constables. 

Dharmendra Kumar Meena,the DCP,summoned the four police officers for an inquiry and questioned them separately.But the clinching evidence was a mobile phone video recording of the incident the DCP submitted in the report to senior officers.

The video shows Parvathamma picking up Shivaraj and Nagendra from their house.This was  with the FIR’s claim that Shivaraj was picked up from Kuvempu Circle around 1 pm on July 14 by a constable named Eranna. 

But according to the FIR,Shivaraj was picked up while he was returning home but he wasn’t drunk. The constable suspected he had taken drugs and took him to the police station.Shivaraj was later subjected to a medical test at a private hospital in Cox Town,which confirmed drug consumption, the FIR states. 

According to the report, submitted by DCP Meena,Parvathamma detained two youths near Goraguntepalya on the night of July 14 while on patrol duty one of them was smoking a cigarette and threw it away on seeing the police vehicle.

The cops assumed he was consuming drugs and disposed them of on seeing them.He was taken to RMC Yard police station.There,the four cops gave him a cigarette filled with ganja and told him to smoke it, the report read.

As per the inquiry conducted by ACP, Yeshwanthpura Sub-Division it was found that the only reason Shivaraj was framed in the false case was that he couldn’t pay a bribe. He didn’t have any money as his groundnut business suffered in the lockdown. 

After receiving a detailed investigation report DCP,Meena summoned all the four police personnel including inspector and sub inspector Anjanapa while questioning DCP Meena,grew suspicious on the body language of PSI and when he saw Anjinappa repeatedly touching the right pocket of his trousers and directed his staff to frisk the SI.

While frisking they found Anjinappa was recording his conversation with the senior officer by switching on the recorder of his mobile phone 14 minutes of the talk had been recorded secretly recorded the conversation on his mobile phone.

The police officers have been suspended until further orders says order issued by commissioner of police Kamal Pant and he warned all the police personnel that strict action will be taken if they indulge in illegal activities he added.

BENGALURU: Karnataka on Sunday reported 1,001 new Covid-19 infections and 22 new deaths, and compared to the previous day, the Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate (CFR) for the day increased from 1.56 per cent to 2.19 per cent.

In the state, Haveri and Bagalkote have the highest CFR with 19.23% and 19.05% respectively, in the last seven days.  Meanwhile, the day-wise positivity rate decreased from 1.21 per cent to 0.68 per cent. This took the total tally to 28,94,557 and 36,374, respectively.

Meanwhile, Bengaluru reported 165 cases and 3 deaths.  There were 1,465 discharges in the state and 293 in the capital, which took Karnataka’s total recoveries to 28,34,741.  Active cases in the state stand at 23,419, which includes 8,215 cases in Bengaluru. The total Covid tests done in the day were 1,46,988.