Archives for August 2021

Pramesh Jain

The South Division police of Kempegowda Nagar police on Wednesday arrested a 28-year-old auto rickshaw driver who along with his cousin murdered his best friend to be with his wife .

The three accused has been identified as,Ranjitha,Sanju MS,and Subramanya from Hassan.

Senior officer told media persons,a missing complaint was registered by a accused wife of deceased who stated in her complaint that her husband who is auto rickshaw driver by profession has not returned home after going for work.

Kempegowda Nagar police inspector registered a missing complaint of missing meanwhile deceased sister registered a complaint against deceased wife and her friends that they have murdered her brother.

Based on complaint,Inspector,Chethan Kumar ML and team swung into action the Inspector during investigation on suspicion conducted the background check on Ranjitha and verified the call record details of Karthink and Sanju before the latter was picked up.

After verifying the call records and other technical inputs the team picked up Ranjita for questioning A Detailed questioning led her to confess to the murder.

The team grilled her who spilled the beans and based on the confession the police arrested Sanju and his cousin Subramanya and recovered the jack rod used to kill Karthik and recovered his highly decomposed body from the drain on Wednesday.

After arresting all the accused the team grilled all the three who spilled the beans and a detailed investigation was conducted and it has revealed that the accused Sanju MS,native of Mandya was separated from wife and homeless was given shelter by his old friend Karthik,K V  25,resident of Srinagar,and allowed him to stay at his house and also use his autorickshaw to use to eke out a living.

While Sanju was driving the auto day time and return home,Karthik would go for night shift leaving Sanju at home .

However Sanju had an affair with Karthik’s wife Ranjitha for the past three months.Rajintha told Sanju that Karthik is getting a money out of his ancestral property share and they decided to kill Karthik so that they could take the money and live happily ever after .

As per the plan Sanju ganged up with his cousin Subramanya, 20,from Hassan,took Karthik on July 29 on the pretext of party.

They trio went in autorikshaw near Channapatna and after a couple of drinks Sanju bludgeoned Karthik with a jack rod and crushed his head with a boulder to make sure he is dead.

The duo later stuffed the body in a gunny bag which they have carried and brought the body and buried near a storm water drain near Rajarajeshwari Medical college.

The team also arrested Ranjitha soon after she returned from her parents house where she had gone to visit them and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP South,Harish Pandey,ACP,VV Puram Sub-Division,BL Srinivasmurthy,PI,ML Chethan Kumar and his whole team as, Tulasidas,Brahmanand,Arvind,D Siddanagowda,Chethan Kumar,Ravikumar,Venkataraju,and Krishna Nayak has been appreciated for the exemplary work and good piece of investigation done by them in solving the murder case successfully he added.

Pramesh Jain

Karnataka Government has issued new prohibitory orders to contain the spread of Covid in the city. It has implemented night curfew from 10 pm to 6 am till 16th August.

Minutes after swearing in ceremony of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai newly appointed Council of Ministers,at Raj Bhavan,City police commissioner,Kamal Pant on Tuesday enforced  prohibitory orders in and around the city restricting assembly of four or more people in public places .

The order signed by Mr.Pant on Sunday was executed on Tuesday,saying that the prohibitory orders were issued following the decision of state disaster management committee on July 31st to contain the spread of covid pandemic . 

Though the prohibitory orders are applicable across the city till midnight of 16 August 2021,  places like bus stands,metro railway stations and airports have been exempted .

Even though the number of positive cases in Bengaluru have come down substantially,it is considered to impose certain restrictions in accordance with the government to prevent spread of covid cases in the city,the order said .

The order was enforced to prevent danger to human life,health and maintain public peace.It is considered essential to restrict the number of people gathering in public places .

This week, several apartment complexes in the city were turned into containment zones as Covid cases shot up.

Apartments become containment zones due to the people who are residing in their homes after travelling abroad and hiding travel information.

Till 2nd August, there were 108 active micro-containment zones in Bengaluru under Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.

There were 44 zones in the city on 1st July, indicating that the maximum number were added in July.Karnataka had started seeing a spike in Covid cases in the last week of the month.

On 31st July, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced that his government had extended the Covid guidelines till 16 August. He said the guidelines imposed till 2 August would be extended for the next 15 days. “A total of 72% school teachers have been vaccinated. In the next 15 days, we will cover 100%,” he said.

“We allowed people who had received one dose of the vaccine. From tomorrow, it will be necessary to have both doses. Random testing should be increased in border areas. We have discussed micro containment, tracing, testing,” he added.

Any violations to this order will be liable for prosecution under Disaster management act and Karnataka Epidemic disease Act.

Pramesh Jain

The Rajajinagar Police on Tuesday arrested a 24 year old labourer who clubbed his friend to death over a trivial row July 28.

The accused has been identified as,Akash Khushwa,24 year old resident of Madhya Pradesh a labourer working at under construction site

As soon as the murder was reported jurisdiction police inspector,Ashok with other crime staff rushed to the spot and secured the accused.

After taking stock of the situation from the police inspector he said,both the accused and deceased Anil are from Madhya Pradesh working as labourers for an under construction house .

On July 28,the duo got drunk after work and went to sleep.The duo had an argument over charging their mobile and started hitting each other .

In the melee Asho took up a wooden log and assaulted Anil.As a result Anil sustained severe head injuries and collapsed .

The other labourers noticed him lying in pool of blood later and took him to a near-by hospital where he was declared as brought dead.