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The court orally observed that not a single political leader came forward when Covid-19 issues were being heard since the past 14 months and now suddenly they have started filing petitions. 

BENGALURU: Questioning the steps taken by elected representatives to address the issues around Covid-19 in the state, the Karnataka High Court on Thursday declined to entertain ‘publicity interest litigations’ filed by MLAs.

“That too publicity interest litigations,” the court said.

The high court declined to entertain a PIL filed by MLA H K Patil seeking directions to use government agencies, including ISRO, to address Covid patients’ grievances, after the court questioned the petitioner’s approach of coming to court instead of taking them up with the government.

The court took up another petition filed by Leader of Opposition in Legislative Council SR Patil on Covid issues in Bagalkot district. The court directed Patil to submit a representation to the state government on making sure sufficient beds are available for Covid-19 patients in the said district. The state was directed to consider the representation within a week from the date of receipt.

Similarly, on making adequate Remdesivir doses available, the court asked him to submit details to Amicus Curiae Vikram Huilgol who will bring it to the attention of the court while hearing the main PILs which were being heard.

The court also disposed of a PIL filed by MLA KR Ramesh Kumar after directing the state to submit a response to his request to issue directions to it to make arrangements for collection of swab samples from remote villages for RT-PCR test and mobile testing facility. 

Noting that there cannot be any dispute on this issue and it will be considered on the next date of hearing PILs, the court said that it would be appropriate for the state government to issue a circular to all private hospitals asking them to strictly adhered to the provisions of KPME Act.

The court issued a notice to the Centre and its other agencies based on a PIL filed by former professor of IIM-B S Chandrashekar. He sought directions to the Centre to invoke Section 92 of the Patent Act to allow various global manufacturers of Covid vaccine to voluantarily execute licenses to manufacture them in India. 

He also asked the court to issue directions to constitute a rapid action task force to oversee the upscaling of the manufacture of vaccines and rapid inoculation of people.

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PHC Doctor and aide arrested by Annapoorneshwarinagar police for stealing and selling covishield vaccine illegally in Bengaluru:

The West Division police of Annaporneshwarinagar police on Thursday arrested a 25-year-old doctor and her associate for administering covishield vaccine to people at a house for a price of Rs 500 per shot .

The accused has been identified as,Dr. Pushpitha,25,medical officer of Manjunath Nagar Primary Health center and her associate Prema,34,a homemaker from ITI Layout.

Dr.Pushpita used to get the vials from the PHC center and vaccinate people at the house of Prema after she collected Rs 500 from each person.

DCP West,Dr.Sanjeev M Patil said,The Covid in Bengaluru city has showed many unexpected heroes from all corners of life likewise we have seen dark side also.

Among one such incident the vaccine that were to be given to a people in PHC center in Manjunathnagar were traced to place in ITI layout in Annapoorneshwarinagar police station limits.

A medical officer working at PHC centre Manjunathnagar,Dr.Pushpitha aged 25 years along with prema aged 34 years a resident of ITI layout were running a joint vaccination programme in Prema’s house.

Our witnesses have given information that this private vaccination programme was going on since 23rd of April and this used to happen almost everyday after 4 o clock in the evening.

Upon inquiry it is found that the doctor used to procure this vials from the PHC centre Manjunathnagar campus and would give to people here.

Who would be called by Prema our team has secured a Frozen vials carrier,vials used and unused,Syringes used and unused from the house of this accused Prema he added.

Senior officer,told media persons,our Annapoorneshwarinagar police inspector Lohith received a credible information about the private vaccination programme is being administered in a house in ITI layout.

As soon as the information was passed to Inspector he immediately passed the information to his senior officers and the senior officers instructed the Inspector to take all necessary measures and nab the miscreants.

Based on able guidance of DCP West, Dr Sanjeev M Patil,Inspector Lohith turned himself as decoy and visited the house to take a vaccine shot at their house.

After visiting the house and after confirmation that in the house they are administering vaccination illegally and are collecting Rs.500 for each shots from people who comes to take a vaccine shot at their house.

Based on this the Inspector detained them and conducted a search at their house and found used and unused vials and syringe in their possession.

The Inspector and his team arrested the duo and during interrogation the accused confessed the crime and it was revealed that the Medical officer used to steal the covishield vaccine from her center.

Dr.Pushpita was working in the PHC for the last six months and said to have vaccinated many people in the last few days.

We suspect that Dr.Pushpitha forged the records to steal the vials and store it at the house of Prema in a frozen vaccine carrier.

The vaccines are sanctioned by the government to the PHC centre to give it to the people who have registered at the government portals.

But this medical officer has cheated the government and to earn easy money and become rich in short time has landed in police net and is cooling her heels in jail.

The police have taken the duo into custody for questioning to ascertain about the racket and possible involvement of others he added.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr.Sanjeev M Patil,ACP,UD Krishna Kumar,PI,Lohith and his team for the commendable job done by them in nabbing the duo and busting the private vaccination programme running illegally in house and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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The Central division cyber crime police on Wednesday arrested two persons including a nigerian national for cheating people on the pretext of selling Remdesivir and medicine to treat covid patients.

The accused has been identified as Mohammed Ismail Khadri,43,from Vidyaranyapura and his partner in crime Alade Abdulla Yusuf,26,from Nigeria and resident of Yelahanka.

Senior officer told reporters,there were series of complaints were registered in Central CEN police station in which the complainants stated that they received a whatsapp message from unknown number on their mobile number claiming they are from reputed Pharma and are into selling Remdesivir and other Covid related medicines.

And the said person used to ask the victims to send prescription and used to take money to procure the Remdesivir injection vials and other medicines.

Once anyone of the victim fall prey to this conman after receiving amount they would switch off the phone.

Based on series of complaints,DCP MN Anucheth,asked the ACP to form a special teams and to nab the miscreants.

The team swung into action and after getting a credible information the Central CEN police inspector,Praveen Babu and team zeroed in on both the accused.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and after conducting searching in their house the police team have seized 110 SIM cards,four mobile phones and 10 bank accounts which were created using fake IDs.The police also asked the banks concerned to freeze Rs four lakh deposit in the bank accounts .

The team grilled both of the them and it was revealed that Khadri is owner of a mobile shop and used to repair mobiles and sell SIM cards.HE used fake IDs of the people to get SIM cards for his partner in the crime .

Khadri also used fake documents to open bank accounts which were used by the accused to transfer the money.

To make people believe they are from Pharmacy the accused created a website in a reputed name of a pharma company to lure gullible people offering to Remdesivir injections and medicine related to covid treatment .

The accused would ask the people to transfer money and switch off the mobile phones as soon as the money was transferred .

As soon as the transactions landed at a bank account,the accused would transfer the cash from one account to another to hoodwink the officials to block the transactions .

With their arrest the CEN police have solved four cases of online frauds reported in the recent past in the central Division.

We have seized the mobile phones and analyzing the all record details to ascertain their criminal network,he added.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated,Addl CP West Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP Central,MN Anucheth,ACP,Smt.Nazma Farooq,PI,Praveen Babu and their whole team who has done a exemplary and meticulous investigation in solving the case and nabbing them and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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Officials of the Railway Protection Force on Tuesday busted major Remdesivir injection Vials black marketing racket and arrested four staff of the railway hospital for running the racket .

Senior RPF Official said,the RPF officials received a credible information about the Remdesivir injection vials being stolen by Bengaluru Railway Hospital staff and are selling it in illegally charging exorbitant price from patients relative.

Based on a tip off,a team of RPF officials approached one of the accused near railway hospital close to KSR station and caught him red handed while handing over three vials of remdesvir injections .

The accused,an attender by profession,offered to sell three vials for a price of Rs.1.5 lakh.

based on his information the police arrested his associates including a staff nurse, ambulance driver and house keeping staff.  

Inquiries revealed that the accused are in the business for the fortnight and sold around 70  vials charging exhobirant price of Rs.50,000 each.

A detailed investigation by the team it has revealed that the accused would take the vials from the store which are meant for patients . 

Elaborating further the patient requires at least six doses of vials for complete recovery,but the accused would give him only three doses and keep the rest with them which they would sell it into black market.

The accused are selling the injections mostly in bulks to the medical representatives and efforts are on to track them down.

We suspect that there are insiders involved in this racket and efforts are on to track them down.

We have arrested 4 persons under Section 3 of Railway Property (Unlawful PossessionAct, including one contractual worker and Group C/D employees working in Divisional Railway Hospital.

All the accused have been produced before the court and have been remanded to judicial custody. Further investigation is in progress. Further, the staff involved have been suspended and stringent disciplinary action has been initiated by the Railway administration against them.

Finally Debashmita Chattopadhyay Banerjee Senior Divisional Security Commissioner of Railways, appreciated their whole staff for busting the Major Racket and arresting the accused successfully and a suitable reward will be given to the team for their meticulous investigation he added.