Parmesh S Jain

The South Division police of Konanakunte police have arrested a gang of nine who bludgeoned a 19 year old youth to death over a trivial row over Rs.1200 on Tuesday.

The accused has been identified as,Kiran@Jackson,19,Pavan@Solle,19,Karthik, S,19,Manikanta@Mani,19,Pavan Kumar@Puttenahalli Pavan@Chitte,20,Abhishek,Anil Kumar@Anie,20,Munesh Kumar,19, Shashank T,18 and others.

Senior officer told reporters,a youth was hacked to death near Government school in Konanakunte police station limits about more than 10 member armed gang for a trivial row as the accused and victim were playing a game in mobile as FREE FIRE for which he took loan of Rs.1500 and returned only Rs.300 in return.

To recover the accused Kiran hatched a plan to kill his friend and roped in with his associates and called the deceased Mehaboob and Manjunath near Govt school to take back the money when the victim said he will not return a heated argument turned into violent and stabbed the youth brutally and his friend with sharp weapons and escaped which resulted in one person death.

After registering a case of murder the Konanakunte police inspector Nanjegowda and his team swung into action and with the technical inputs arrested 11 member gang and three juveniles.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and revealed that the friend of the deceased had lent Rs.1500 to one of the accused to buy a mobile app.The accused though repaid rs 300 but refused to return the rest of the money led to fight.

In the melee the accused attacked mahboob , who was seen with opposite gang.

The profusely bleeding Mahboob was rushed to Victoria hospital where he succumbed to his injuries later.

The Konanakunte police arrested nine of the accused and detained three Juvenile who were part of the gang which killed Mahboob.

The police are now on the lookout for two more accused who are on the run.The three juveniles will be produced before the juvenile board for further action and efforts are on to track the absconding accused.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP,South,Harish Pandey,ACP,TM Shivakumar,PI,Nanjegowda,PSIs,as,Vinay KL, Smt.Sowmya M S,Arun Kumar and crime staff has been appreciated for the commendable and exemplary work done by them in nabbing the murder accused and recovered the vehicles and weapons used to commit offence by acting swiftly a suitable reward will be given to the whole team for their excellent investigation he added.

Parmesh S Jain

A big crackdown on drug peddlers by South Division police of, Kempegowda Nagar police, Siddapura police,and Jayanagar police have nabbed Six Peddlers and recovered huge quantity of Narcotics drugs substances from them.

The Kempegowda Nagar police inspector Rakshit and his team received a tip off that a group of four persons are supplying marijuana drugs to gangsters and rowdies in the city and are waiting near deer park with substances.

Acting on tip-off inspector Rakshith and his crime team swung into action and rushed to spot the team surrounded the area and kept a close watch on them and after getting confirmation the team apprehended all the four and took them to station with the goods vehicle with this they have
busted inter state drug racket arrested four persons.

The accused has been identified as,Pothaiah,19, Pallem Vara Prasad,19,Vanthala Ramesh,19, Kondajji Prasad,19 from east Godhavari were arrested red handed while they were waiting near deer park in Dhobi Ghat to deliver the consignment in a goods vehicle.

The police seized 200 kilos of Marijuana stuffed in sacks concealed under the Vegetables and green sacks in a goods vehicle.

Investigation revealed that the accused source the drugs from Andhra Pradesh and with the help of few gangsters smuggle the drugs into city and supply it to rowdies including Kulla Rizwan,Star Naveen,Star Rahul,Ullal Karthik and Ullal Hamid.

In another incident,the Siddapura police inspector,Raju A and his team acting on tip off about the foreign national is waiting to deliver the consignment of cocaine to his clients.

Inspector Raju and his team rushed near Lalbagh Kalyani and after keeping a close watch on the foreign national and after getting confirmation the team approached him and when checked his belongings the team found Cocaine in his possession.

The team took him to station and arrested a ivoirienne national and seized 103 grams of cocaine from him .

The accused was caught red handed while waiting near lalbagh Kalyani for his customers.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and it is revealed that the accused zago Constant, 37 was arrested earlier by Hennur and Sanjay Nagar police in similar offence.After coming out on bail he continue to peddle drugs.

The Jayanagar police Inspector,Manjunath and his crime staff received a credible information that a person is waiting to deliver the consignment to his clients near Sakkambari Metro station parking in a ground and is waiting near old buses parked.

Acting on the information inspector Manjunath and his team rushed to spot and surrounded the place and after confirmation the team approached the person and asked him for whom he is waiting at the same time the team found two plastic bags hided near buses the team checked and found Marijuana drugs and took him to police station for questioning.

The accused confessed the crime and during investigation the accused was identified as,Sanaullah and a detailed investigation by the team the accused spilled the beans that he is a associate of gangsters and rowdies,and is working for them the team seized 20 kgs of Marijuana which he has sourced from Andhra Pradesh.

Investigation revealed that the accused source the drugs from Andhra Pradesh and with the help of few gangsters smuggle the drugs into city and supply it to rowdies including Kulla Rizwan,Star Naveen,Star Rahul,Ullal Karthik and Ullal Hamid.

All the six accused has been arrested under NDPS Act and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP,South,Harish PandeyACP,KV Srinivas, PIS,as,Rakshith,U R Manjunath,Raju A,PSIs,as,Naveen Kumar,Padmanabh C,and crime staff as, Anti-Narcotics special squad as,Lakshmanachar,Pavan, Yashwanth,Tannahji Morre,Shivakumar S, Chandrashekhar Nayak, Parameshwar Mabrukar,Anand and others has been appreciated for the exemplary and excellent investigation done by them in nabbing the notorious Drug peddlers who were working for gangsters and rowdies in the city as there is Zero tolerance on drug peddlers and consumers in the city a special reward will be given to whole team who has recovered huge quantity of drugs he added.

Parmesh S Jain

The cyber crime police of CCB on Saturday arrested 22 year old son of a city based astrologer for allegedly blackmailing son of minister of cooperation with obscene video clip.

Rahul Bhat is son of well known astrologer chandrashekhar Swamiji residing in RT Nagar.

Nishanth in his complaint stated that bhat had contacted the PA of his father blackmailed with the fake video and threatened to upload it on social media

There was a deep rooted conspiracy to scuttle my political growth and tarnish the image of my father,Nishanth said in his complaint.

The police are now trying to ascertain the conspiracy behind and possible involvement of others.

Senior officer said,Minister,Somashekar’s son,Nishanth, had filed a complaint with the cyber police on December 27 stating that his father’s personal secretary, Bhanu Prakash, received extortion calls from unknown persons.

The callers demanded ransom and threatened to release an alleged sex video of Nishanth if their demand was not met.

Based on a complaint filed by Nishanth somashekhar, the cyber crime police track down the person identified as Rahul Bhat based on the mobile number he used to blackmail and taken him into custody for five days on Saturday.

Meanwhile another accused involved in this blackmailing has been arrested in Goa says senior officer and investigation is on.

Bengaluru: Karnataka on Saturday reported 8,906 fresh COVID-19 cases and four deaths, taking the cumulative infections and fatalities to 30,39,958 and 38,366 respectively, the health department said.

In its bulletin, the health department said 508 people were discharged, taking the total number of recoveries to 29,63,056. The active cases in the state stood at 38,507.

The spike in cases was driven by Bengaluru Urban which contributed 7,113 infections and three deaths. Other districts too had fresh cases, including 295 in Dakshina Kannada, 203 in Mysuru, 186 in Udupi, 183 in Mandya and 139 in Hassan and 111 in Bengaluru Rural.

Kalaburagi recorded one death. There were zero fatalities in 29 districts whereas Haveri and Yadgir reported zero infections and zero fatality.

The positivity rate for the day was 5.42 per cent and the case fatality rate was 0.04 per cent.

A total of 1,64,261 samples were tested in the state, including 1,35,291 RT-PCR tests on Saturday, taking the cumulative number of specimens examined so far to 5.75 crore.

There were 1,65,880 inoculations done taking the total vaccinations so far to 8.95 crore, the department said.

Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister B C Nagesh |

Bengaluru: Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister B C Nagesh on Saturday appeared to defend the action of some students, who recently wore saffron scarves in a college in Chikkamagaluru district to protest against sporting of hijab by a few Muslim women inside the classroom, terming it as a reaction.

The management of Balagadi Government Degree College in Koppa taluk of Chikkamagaluru district had initially banned wearing both saffron scarves and hijab but later allowed it till January 10 when the “betterment committee” is slated to take a call on the issue.

Wondering what prompted the Muslim women to sport hijab inside the classroom, Nagesh said in a video message, “Now as a reaction, some of the students are putting orange (saffron) shawls on them. It’s their reaction. As you know, whenever there is an action there will be a reaction.”

He also charged that some organisations want to create “differences” and take advantage.

In a government pre-university college in the coastal town of Udupi, six Muslim girls were barred from attending the classes since January 1 for wearing hijab as the dress was against prescribed norms of the college.

The Campus Front of India and Girls Islamic Organisation of India had lodged a complaint with the Karnataka State Minorities Commission chairman Abdul Azeem to look into the matter.

The matter was resolved after four days in the college betterment committee meeting where it was decided that no one would be allowed to attend classes with hijab.

About the Udupi incident, Nagesh wondered, “The students of a pre-university college in Udupi decided to use scarves (hijab) and not to follow the discipline of the college. I don’t know what made them to do like that.”

Talking to PTI, KSMC chairman Abdul Azeem said the matter in Udupi has been resolved as it was decided in the college betterment committee that the girls can enter college wearing scarves but they cannot attend the class putting them on.

He said the Campus Front of India had given a memorandum to him asking his intervention to allow the women in Udupi to attend classes with headscarves.

After receiving a complaint from Udupi students, he contacted the Wakf officer of Udupi, the district minority welfare officer, deputy director of the PU Board as well as the superintendent of police of Udupi.

According to him, there was an arrangement since 1985 that hijab will not be allowed inside the classroom. “If they want to come with hijab, they can come with hijab to the college premises but not inside the classrooms,” Azeem clarified.

He added that he has also written to minister Nagesh urging him to examine the issue “constitutionally”.

The Campus Front of India state committee member Mohammed Zuber K in his complaint to the KSMC chairman said the students have been denied entry into the class for wearing hijab “which is a symbol of our modesty, identity and an important part of our religious observance”.

He also said the constitutional rights of the women to advocate practice and propagate their faith was violated.

Bengaluru: Ahead of the weekend curfew, which will come into effect from Friday at 8 pm to Monday 5 am, Karnataka Excise Minister K Gopalaiah said there will be no sale of liquor for two days starting from tonight across the state.

“It has been decided that there will not be any sale of liquor during the weekend curfew. I have directed the officials to issue an order to this effect,” Gopalaiah told reporters.

He said there is spike in cases in the state, especially in Bengaluru. Hence, it has been decided not to open the liquor shops.

Gopalaiah said the liquor shop owners had given a representation to allow them to run their shops but due to rising COVID cases, their plea was not considered.

Meanwhile, Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant appealed to people not to venture out unnecessarily.

“The weekend curfew will come into effect from 8 pm tonight. Please do not go to various places unnecessarily and cooperate with the police for your own safety,” Pant told reporters.

He said only a set of activities is permitted including essential and medical services.

“Those who want to go to the hospital have to furnish supporting documents. Those travelling should also possess tickets and related papers,” the police commissioner said.

He added that the police would not issue any passes for people to travel within the city.

Pant warned that those violating the COVID-19 norms will face action under the Natural Disaster Management Act (NDMA). The violators will be detained and their vehicles will be seized.

The Karnataka government issued a set of prohibitory orders including weekend and night curfews for two weeks to check the rising COVID cases.

Mangaluru: In the background of weekend curfew in Dakshina Kannada district, the movement of buses remains unaffected in the district. Police have been posted in various prominent places and strict arrangements have been set up in this regard. Despite such arrangements, people’s traffic is also observed in the region.

Reportedly, police have undertaken vehicle inspection under the leadership of DCP Hariram Shankar near the Clock Tower in the city. 

Parmesh S Jain

Additional Director of KMF (market) and his team probing Nandini Ghee adulteration racket zeroed in on a wholesale dealer in the city who supplied the spurious products in and around the city .

Dr. Suresh in his complaint said that the KMF officials after raiding the manufacturing unit of Adulterated Nandini Ghee in Hosahundi village in Nanjangud Taluk on December 16, the officials continued to probe the supply chain .

Based on the complaint by Dr. BP Suresh, the Basavanagudi police inspector and his team swung into action and in a joint operation the officials along with the police raided the godowns and shops and seized the adulterated products and sent it to the government quality labs for testing and confirmed that it is adulterated.

Based on the reports the team raided Godown and office of Shruthi Marketing in Vani villas road and it is revealed that the adulterated ghee is supplied to a wholesale dealer in bengaluru from there supplied to his retails clients in and around the city including Hanumanthnagar,Hoskur in Nelamangala and Hosakote,Devanagundi,Jayanagar and Rajajinagar.

Further investigations led to Shruthi Marketing corporation which supplied the adulterated products under the banner of KMF, as per the preliminary investigations.

The official wanted a detailed probe on the company and sought legal action.

Basavanagudi police has registered FIR against Shruthi Marketing Corporation situated on Vani Vilas road charging under section 420 ( cheating )section 272,(Adulterating food or drink intended for sale) and also under various sections of Essential commodities Act and further investigation is on he added.

Parmesh S Jain

The Bagalagunte police have caught the owner of a travel agency who had cheated over 100 car owners promising them to attach their vehicles to his travel agency and pay them monthly rent .

The accused has been identified as Shivakumar with the help of his associates sold the vehicles in neighbouring Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh for throwaway prices and used the money to repay his huge amount of debts.

Senior officer told media persons,based on complaint Registered by victims a special team was formed to nab the cheating gang a team headed by PI, Bagalagunte swung into action and with the help of technical inputs the team tracked the accused and arrested him.

During investigation the accused Shivakumar, confessed the crime and it is revealed that he is a native of Davanagere owned a poultry farm and also into pulses business.

A detailed investigation by the crime team he revealed that he incurred huge losses and due to harassment from his money lenders came to Bengaluru and started RS travels in Bagalagunte in November last year,offering huge amounts of returns for the cab which they had attached to his travel agencies.

With the help of his associates Krishnegowda, Srikanth and Asghar they approached owners of the SUVs in and around the city with the good deal offer and took their vehicles .

After getting over 100 vehicles,the accused shut down the business and escaped.The vehicles they sold in neighbouring states for throwaway prices citing as seized vehicles from people who failed to pay loan has been recovered from his possession.

The vehicles recovered based on his statement are,Innova crysta – 12,Toyota Innova – 5,Toyota etios- 10, Swift dezire -23,Mahindra verito -4,Indigo -1,Xcent -9,Honda amaze -1,Xylo -1,and Ford Figo -1,totally 67 Hi-End cars Worth of Rs.5.72 has been recovered so far and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP North,Vinayak Patil,ACP,Arun Nagegowda,PI,Sunil HB, PSIs as,Sreekantegowda B,Prabhu KL,Lokesh M,Santhosh Kumar,Nagesh HV,and crime staff as,Srinivas,Kumaraswamy, Purshottam,Mallikarjun,Eshwar Sannaki,Mahantaiah,Puthresh,and Prakash Kilari has been appreciated for the commendable and excellent investigation done by the whole team in nabbing the travel agency owner and his associates and recovered 67 Hi-End cars from them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Parmesh S Jain

Atleast Four persons including two women travelling in a same car were killed and six others injured in a serial accident occured on NICE road near purvankara apartment in Kumaraswamy layout on friday night.

The deceased has been identified as,Md fadzil,Abhilash,Jeena, software employees,and Jeena a private school teacher all aged about 25-30 years were killed in a accident.

As soon as the incident was reported immediately senior officers as,DCP,Traffic West, Kuldeep Kumar R Jain,with ACP, Srinivas,and other staff rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area of accident and after collecting information from the passer by and eyewitness.

Senior officer said,A major fatal accident occurred on Nice Road near Purvankara Apartment in Bengaluru wherein a truck collided with vehicles,which resulted in a serial accident.

The horrific accident occurred at around,9.30 pm due to Tamil Nadu registered truck driving in rash and negligent manner collided with the kerala registeration car (wagonr).

Due to this two more cars and four trucks damaged as they collided with each other .

Four persons who were travelling in SUV (qualis) and two others travelling in another car (swift) sustained minor injuries, admitted to hospital and out of danger,a senior police officer, said.

The vehicles on the stretch of road was moving slowly due to minor road repair and due to negligence of the truck driver, led to the accident, a preliminary inquiry revealed.

The truck driver escaped soon after the accident and efforts are on to track him down.

The deceased were heading in a car from Bannerghatta towards tumkur.Traffic moving was disrupted on NICE road for sometime and vehicles were stranded for over four kms.

DCP Traffic West,Kuldeep Kumar R Jain is supervising the investigation and the culprit truck driver will be nabbed soon he added.

In an self accident two people killed on the spot as they rammed into the divider near PES college under Banashankari Traffic limits.

In a separate road accident,two youngsters returning from a party crashed their motorbikes into a median near the Indira Canteen on Outer Ring Road near PES University and died in the impact.

Lakshmeesha (28),an engineer, and Raghavendra (32),a lab technical assistant,partied at a Nagarabhavi resto-bar with their friends Rakshith and Gautam.

They were returning to their homes at Byatarayanapura in two separate bikes without wearing helmets.

The accident happened as they were going from Mysuru Road towards the 100 Feet Ring Road.

A case has been registered in Banashankari Traffic police station and are investigating further.