Archives for January 2022

New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday appointed former Rajya Sabha member B K Hariprasad as the party’s leader in the Karnataka Legislative Council.

It also appointed Prakash Rathod as the chief whip and K Govindraj as the Congress Deputy Leader of Legislative Council in the state.

An official statement said Congress president Sonia Gandhi appointed Hariprasad as the Leader of Legislative Council, along with making other appointments.

Parmesh S Jain

Small buses are ideal for public transport in city limits.So,priority should be on inducting more mini buses for city service,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has opined.

Speaking at a meeting to review the performance of the Transport department,he instructed the officials to provide buses from the department to the organisation which has come forward to convert them into CNG buses.

Referring to 30 online services of the department being provided for the general public,the Chief Minister wanted the officials to launch an intensive publicity campaign to spread awareness about it among the public.

Demand for buses is high in rural areas,Bommai said and instructed the officials to review the number of buses being operated in existing routes.

Induct more buses where the demand is high. He also asked the officials to submit a report on expenditure being incurred on repair of the buses.

Transport minister B Sriramulu,Chief Secretary P Ravikumar and other senior officials participated in the meeting.

Parmesh S Jain

The Byatarayanapura police on Monday arrested a gang of three and recovered 25 stolen bikes 65 grams of gold valuables and 24 mobile phones from them altogether worth of Rs.30 lakhs from his possession.

The accused has been identified as,Kabir Pasha, 20,Syed Kaleem,30 and Aftab Pasha,20 .

Senior officer told media persons, following a series of bike theft cases,a high level meeting was called by DCP,West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP, Kodandarama,PI,Shankar Naik and his crime team were part of the meeting.

DCP after taking stock of the complaints formed a special team under the supervision of ACP, Kodandarama,a team headed by PI,Shankar Naik and his team swung into action.

The team utilising the police technology skill and after analysing CCTV footage the team got the Identity of the bike lifting gang the crime staff identified the accused and tracked Kabir and arrested him.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and based on his statement the team nabbed two of his associates who were part of lifting bikes were also arrested.

Based on his information the police arrested his associated and recovered 25 bikes and 65 grams of gold and 24 mobile phones .

The accused had also stolen a bike and robbed a gold chain and Rs 11,000 from a person in Uppinangadi town police station limits at knife point.

A detailed investigation by the team it was found that the accused used roam around Shamanna garden and JJ Nagar and used to steal bikes parked in front of the houses and used them to commit chain snatching and mobile snatching in and around the city .

The Byatarayanpura police are now trying to track down the owners of the bikes and mobile phones for further investigations.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP, Kodandarama,PI,Shankar Naik and his whole team for the commendable job done by them in nabbing all the accused and recovered stolen property from them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Parmesh S Jain

A 45-year-old food delivery executive was killed when a speeding bus knocked down his motorcycle in Malleshwaram on Monday morning.

The deceased Suresh Babu,resident of Lakshmidevi nagar was on his way to work when the bus coming from Nelamangala heading towards Majestic knocked him down on Margosa road 17th cross .

The severely injured Suresh Babu was rushed to KC General hospital where the doctors declared him as brought dead.

The Malleshwaram police have registered a case of rash and negligent driving and death due to negligence against the driver and investigating.

In another incident,two labourers were killed when they lost control over the scooter they were riding and collided with a goods vehicle near Dr Rajkumar memorial on Sunday night.

The deceased have been identified as Kumar Limbo,24,and Sunil Chetri,24.

The duo was from Assam and working as wall painters.The duo was living with their friends in a rented house in Laggere.

The incident occurred at around 11. 30 pm when the duo took a scooter on rent and riding home . Sunil who was riding the scooter lost control over the scooter and collided with the goods vehicles moving ahead of them.

Due to the impact the duo tossed up and crashed on the road sustaining severe injuries.While Limbo was died on the spot Sunil succumbed at the hospital later. Tha Rajajinagar traffic police have taken up case and are investigating.

Parmesh S Jain

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel attached to Mangaluru Junction Railway Station on Sunday detained a man travelling with Unaccounted cash worth Rs.1.48 crore in cash and 800 grams of gold ornaments without any valid records on the Mumbai LTT-Ernakulam Duronto Express.

The accused has been identified as, Mahendra Singh Rao,33, hailing from Rajasthan.

Senior RPF officer told reporters,The operation, under the supervision of RPF Inspector,Manoj, was conducted by personnel K.Chithraraj, Satheesh Balaji, K.P. Sanjeev Kumar and K. Shajith.

The RPF personnel,who were conducting a preventive check on the Duronto Express (Train No 12223) that arrived at 10.20 a.m.at the Junction,examined the luggage of the man,who was occupying Berth 35 on S4 coach,and found currency bundles wrapped in old newspapers.

The accused was taken to the RPF Post where he informed the personnel that he was working for Shubh Gold,owned by Praveen Singh,in Kozhikode of Kerala.

A man known to his owner handed him six packs of currency notes and three packets of jewellery at Mumbai to be given to the owner,he told them.

The seized currency notes in Rs.2,000 and 500 denomination accounted for Rs.1,48,58,000, while the gold ornaments weighed around 800 grams,worth Rs 40 lakh,the RPF said in a communique.

The RPF personnel later handed over the man, identified as Mahendra Singh Rao (33),a native of Udaipur district in Rajasthan,to the Government Railway Police (GRP),Mangaluru Central,along with the seized material.

The GRP police have arrested the man after booking cases under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Karnataka Police Act.

Finally Senior Divisional Security Commissioner,Debashmita Chattopadhyay Banerjee,ADGP,Railways,Bhaskar Rao,has appreciated,SP, Railways,Dr Siri Gowri,RPF Inspector,Manoj,K.Chithraraj,Satheesh Balaji, K.P. Sanjeev Kumar and K.Shajith for the tremendous and exemplary work in nabbing the accused by their pro-active presence of mind while conducting search in train a special and suitable reward will be given to the whole team he added.

Parmesh S Jain

A former army officer resident of Konanakunte filed a complaint with the south Division cyber crime police that he is being harassed,abused and threatened by unidentified caller claiming from loan app firm and demanding repayment of loan.

Mr. Surya Narayana in his complaint,said that he started receiving calls from different numbers from last Tuesday claiming that the callers are from the mobile loan app and demanded to repay the loan.

He tried to reason with them stating that he has not availed any loan,but then he abused and threatened with dire consequences .

The police said that there are some mistaken identity and someone might have misusing the the ids of the complainant had taken loan and escaped .

The police are now trying to track down the accused based on the mobile numbers provided by the complainant.

Based on the complaint filed by Ravi Surya Narayana,the police on saturday registered a case against unknown persons charging them under section 504 (intentional insult)and also under various sections of the IT Act he added.

mobile app loan firm cheated

In another incident,manager of a mobile loan app filed a complaint with the police that as many as 39 people have duped the company by availing Rs 35.5 lakh worth loan by submitting documents belonging to other persons .

Mr.Singh manager with Navi Fin serve private limited,situated in Koramangala said that the company is operating since January 2020 and providing quick online loan to the people after they submit PAN card, Aadhar card and bank details .

There are 39 people who submitted documents belonging to different people and availed loan. The cheating came to light when the firm approached the defaulters at their address based on the Ids submitted.

Based on a complaint by Partha Sarathi Singh, the Southeast division cyber crime police on Thursday registered a case against the defaulters and are investigating .

Parmesh S Jain

A 31-year-old businessman ended his life over domestic row in in Basaveshwara Nagar on Monday night.

The deceased has been identified as,Chand Pasha was upset as his wife lavish life and the couple used to have frequent fights .

Senior officer told media persons,Chand Pasha, a resident of Manjunath Nagar and was running a automobile spare parts and service center.

The incident took place on Monday night as Chand Pasha went to sleep in the hall after a fight with his wife.He hanged himself while his wife was in asleep in the bedroom.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Pasha had married Husna four months ago after divorcing his first wife.

Husna, pregnant with three months used to fight with Pasha for not going weekend trips and not buying gold and for not getting gifts.

Pasha left suicide note blaming Husna and her never ending demands made him to take this extreme step, the police officer added. A case of unnatural death has been registered and further investigations are on.