Pramesh S Jain

Unable to take care of his physically challenged child,a 40 year old autorickshaw driver killed his ten year old differently abled son by drowning him in a water sump inside their residence in Sampangirama Nagar and later ended his life by hanging himself from the celing of an abandoned shed in Sheshadripuram on Monday.

The deceased child has been identified as Uday Sai who was mute and visually challenged.Sai was the only son of the couple,Suresh,40,and Lakshmi,35 and were residing in a rented house in Sampangiram Nagar.

Senior officer told media persons,that Lakshmi was working as a teacher before but had to quit her job to take care of her son while Suresh was an autorickshaw driver.

The incident took place on Monday morning between 6:30 am to 7 am when Suresh woke up and removed the water sump lid.

He took his son who was asleep and dropped him into the sump before closing the lid and ran away.

He went to an empty plot on platform road in Seshadripuram area next to the underpass towards Majestic where he found an abandoned shed and hung himself inside.

Suresh had a spinal cord injury and was advised to undergo an operation immediately.Due to the pandemic,his work had taken a hit and had financial crisis.

Lakshmi told the police that he was very depressed after hearing about the operation and told her a couple of times that he and his son would end their lives so that she could live on without them becoming a burden to her.

However, she had not taken it seriously and on Monday morning when she could not find father and son,she started to suspect Suresh.

She searched everywhere in the house and opened the sump lid when she found her son’s body.As the boy was mute,no one in the building heard anything or could save him,said an officer.

Seshadripuram police said that later in the evening,the public who noticed Suresh’s body, informed the jurisdictional police who rushed to the place and shifted his body for post mortem.

The Sampangiramanagar police have taken up a case of murder against Suresh while Seshadripuram police have registered a case of abetment of suicide and further investigation is on.

Those in distress or those having suicidal tendencies can call Arogya Sahayavani Ph.: 104 for help.

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The KG Nagar police have booked a case against a financier for abducting,torture and assaulting a security guard over a trivial row.

Though the incident occurred on November 18, the police have registered a case on Friday following a complaint from the family of the guard.

Senior officer said,the accused Vasu@Guttahalli Vasu,brought the security guard Yatish to his office,disrobed and assaulted him with a hockey bat while the latter was crying out to leave him alone. 

The accused Vasu also threatened Yatish with dire consequences.The entire act was video recorded and circulated . 

Yatish,who is working with a Yoga center in KG Nagar,allegedly misbehaved and sent indecent messages to the wife of accused Vasu,which led to the incident .

Fearing for his life Yatish did not go home and stayed in the center for a few days.Meanwhile worried family members came in search of him and came to know about the incident.

The family members later approached the police and filed a complaint against Vasu who has been absconding since then.   

Family members of Vasu also filed a counter complaint about the harassment which is also being looked into.

Complainant stated in his complaint that he has taken loan and not paid interest so he was tortured and assaulted by the financier a investigation is on to ascertain the reason behind the allegations made by both parties he added.

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The 26 police senior police officers of the state who have joined the Karnataka Police Service have been promoted to the rank of IPS.

The state government has recommended 26 police officers name who have been assigned with various posts by the state police department based on their experience.

The Central Government on Friday has approved this and issued an official order confirming the service of 26 police officers of Karnataka Police Service based on service excellence.

The officers assigned with various posts are promoted to IPS rank are :

The Central Government has promoted,2016 batch,MV Chandrakanth,ML Madhura veena, 2017 batch,Channabasavanna Langoti, Jayaprakash,KP Anjali,M Narayana,M Muthuraj, Shekhar H Tekannanavar,Ravindra Kashinath Gadadhi,Anita Bhimappa Hadanavar, Sarah Fathima,Rashmi Paradi,MA Aiyappa and Shivakumar of the 2019 batch,Mallikarjuna Balladi,YY. Amarnath Reddy,Pawan Nijjur, B.L. 
Shrihari Babu,MS Geetha,Yashodha Vantagodi,M Rajeev,VJ Shobha Rani,Dr SK Soumyalatha, BT Kavita and Uma Prashant has been promoted as IPS officers.

Promoted officers perform duties in various parts of the state, including Bangalore’s internal security division, intelligence and special task force.

The aforesaid officers will remain on probation for one year as per rule of Indian Police Service (Probation) Rules, 1954 and the officers will
obtain induction training as per sub rule 5(4) of Indian Police Service.

(Probation) Rules, 1954 as amended dated 10.05.2011.

The appointment will take effect from the date of issue of this notification says the order.

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A 32-year-old Gram Panchayath member and his female friend were hacked to death at a house in Ramaiah Layout in Chandapura on Saturday evening.

The deceased have been identified as Narayanaswamy and Kavya, 27.

Senior officials,as SP,Vamsi Krishna including Additional superintendent of Police,Lakshmi Ganesh visited the scene of crime to supervise the investigation.

After inspecting the spot senior officer said, Kavya had come to her mother’s house with her minor child while Narayanaswamy visited a few minutes later.The mother of Kavya went out for a walk with the child leaving the duo at home.

The assailant armed with lethal weapons who was suspected to be keeping a watch struck into the house and stabbed both multiple times and sped away.

The incident came to light when Kavya’ mother returned home from walking and found the duo lying in a pool of blood.

Jurisdiction Police officials rushed to the spot and conducted a detailed investigation.

We suspect Kavya’s husband Muthuraj could be behind the gruesome incident.Probe revealed that Muthuraj,a businessman and also having two criminal cases including a POCSO and dowry harassment case filed by Kavya is nurturing grudges against Narayanaswamy for the illicit affair he had with his wife .

Special teams have been formed and we have some clues on the assailant and will be nabbed soon he added.

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The West Division police of Byadarahalli police on Sunday arrested a 27-year-old ICU staff of a private hospital who had stolen a gold chain from a elderly patient admitted for treatment covid treatment in April this year.

The accused,identified as Imtiyaz,has been arrested following a complaint filed by the family members of the 65-year-old patient.

Senior officer told media persons,a complaint was filed by relative of 65-year-old patient who stated in their complaint that they admitted their relative for Covid treatment and the patient was in ICU and as on 25th April while he got food for the patient he noticed that her gold chain is missing from her neck.

Based on the complaint the police Inspector of Byadarahalli police station,Ravikumar RG and his crime staff swung into action and conducted a detailed and thorough investigation before and based on technical inputs the team zeroed in on Imtiyaz on 10th December.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and revealed that he was waiting for her to go to sleep after getting an injection and removed the 70 grams of chain from her neck worth Rs.3 lakh and escaped.

Based on his statement the team has recovered stolen 70 gram gold chain worth Rs.3 lakhs from his possession and further investigation is on to ascertain his criminal background.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP,T Kodandarama,PI Ravikumar RG,and his whole team for their excellent investigation in nabbing the hospital staffer who stolen gold chain from patients neck while she was undergoing treatment for Covid treatment a suitable reward will be given to the whole team he added.

The Vidhana Soudha police on Sunday arrested a 40-year-old lab technician who posted a derogatory remarks on the death of CDS,General Bipin Rawat.

The accused has been identified as,Vasanth Kumar,40,a lab technician by profession.

Senior officer told media persons,after the instructions and orders by Chief Minister and Home Minister of Karnataka to keep a close watch on social media platforms and to act strictly on those culprits who are rejoicing and celebrating the untimely death of CDS Bipin Rawat and other 11 brave soldiers in a helicopter crash on December 8th.

(The accused had criticised General Rawat on his stand on china’s encroachment stating that he was retirerating Prime Minister,Narendra Modi’s statement. ) .

Earlier on Friday Mangaluru police registered cases against two persons for posting similar messages .

Based on the complaint filed by Deepa Ravi Kumar,PSI with social media unit in police commissioner’s office,on Friday the police track down the accused identified as Vasanth Kumar, a lab technician at a private hospital from Mysore , charging him under section 505 (statement conducing to public mischief)and further investigation is on.

The police action came in the wake of Chief Minister,Basavaraj Bommai instruction on strict against those who posted on social media against Mr. Rawat.

Even Home MInister,Araga Jnanendra instructed DG-IGP Praveen Sood and police department to take strict action on those posting derogatory comments.

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Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday sent out a tough message to the cyber criminals, saying time has come to wage a war on cyber crimes.

Go after the Cyber Criminals,come what may there should be no compromise, we have zero tolerance for them and the time has come to wage a war on cyber crimes,Chief Minister, Basavaraj Bommai said.

He made the remarks while speaking after launching the ‘Cyber Secure Karnataka’ campaign.

Sending a tough message for the cyber criminals in his address after launching the ‘Cyber Secure Karnataka’ campaign, the Chief Minister said,the state has introduced the CIR number system.

It is the first of its kind in the entire country, wherein an FIR would be registered and bank accounts of the victim and the offenders would be frozen following just a mobile phone communication.Even the Prime Minister has appreciated it and it is being emulated by other states as well.

Referring to use of Dark Web in narcotics supply, child trafficking and illegal arms supply,Bommai said,all this come through cyber route.Our government started CEN(Cyber, Economic offences, Narcotics) police stations when I was the Home Minister.

Our government has declared a war against narcotics.However only police stations are not enough.We need technology, modern equipments and funds.

I can provide you everything to enable you to go after this cyber criminals.Come what may there is no compromise,we have zero tolerance against drug trafficking,”he said.

Quoting a saying,”crime leads the law”, he stressed the need for Cyber laws to catch up with criminals to deal with them swiftly and effectively.

As the criminals have a wide network, we need to widen the Cyber Security Network,Bommai said, and suggested the officials to seek the cooperation and suggestions from the union government in this regard.

He called upon the youth to use their digital knowledge and gadgets as a weapon.Use the technology for good cause with social responsibility to better their future.

As digital security involves coding by human talent, there is always an element of vulnerability as far as the users are concerned.It is posing a challenge for the security of women as well.

The Cyber Crime wing of Karnataka has proved to be the best in the country. FSL labs are doing a good job in this regard.

He cited a case of Rs50cr cyber fraud in one of his own government departments and how the tech savvy officers of state police busted the fraud.

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In the women’s category, Sashastra Seema Bal won the title ~  

Dominant Punjab Police defeated a fighting ITBP Jalandhar 7-1 to win the final encounter at the 70th All India Police Hockey Championships which concluded on Saturday here in Bengaluru.

Sans their star striker Ramandeep Singh,who was forced out of the match due to an injury,Punjab Police did well to begin the match in an attacking mode.

They scored goals at regular intervals through Hardeep Singh (14’),Karanbir Singh (17’, 39’), Kanwarjeet Singh (20’),captain Dupinderdeep Singh (41’) and Jagmeet Singh (53’) and Balwinder Singh (55′).A consolation goal was scored by Sunil Kijjur (27’) for ITBP Jalandhar.
In the women’s final, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) secured a scintillating 3-1 victory against CRPF Delhi in a match that was played on par with each other.

While it was SSB who opened the score board through Ranjita Minj (15’), CRPF fought back with a goal by Bharti Thakur (34’) to equalize.

While the next few minutes remained tense, SSB won back the lead through goals by Maxima Ekka (44’) and Rajni Barla (45’).

They held strong in defence all through the last quarter as they held onto the 3-1 lead till the final hooter.

In the men’s bronze medal match,Tamil Nadu Police registered a convincing 6-0 win against hosts Karnataka State Police to end their campaign on the podium.

After a hard-fought semifinal yesterday against the ITBP Jalandhar, Karnataka Police lacked steam in today’s match and failed to play on-par with a younger and fitter Tamil Nadu squad.

Though the hosts did well in the first two quarters with defensive play,they couldn’t stop the TN attackers from going on a goal-scoring spree in the third and fourth quarter. For TN, goals were scored by M Vijay (27’, 45’), B Arunachalam (34’, 47’), M Balamurugan (55’, 60’).    
Meanwhile,Odisha Police took home the bronze medal in the women’s category as they beat Maharashtra State Police 6-0. Odisha’s captain Rashmita Minz (6’, 23’, 37’, 39’) scored four incredible goals to star in the match for her team.

Pramita Toppo (38’) and Elin Lakra (56’) too scored in Odisha Police’s fine win.

The closing ceremony was a star-studded affair with Chief Minister of Karnataka Basavraj Bommai doing the honours for all the winners while mega cine star,Dr Shivaraj Kumar,Dr Rajneesh Goel, IAS Additional Chief Secretary, Dr KC Narayana Gowda,Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs,Praveen Sood, DG-IGP (Karnataka Police) were part of the closing ceremony.

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The West Division police of Annapoorneshwari Nagar police arrested a security guard from Nepal who had burgled the house of a central government employee situated in Mallathalli and made away with Rs 11 lakh cash and gold valuables on October this year.

The accused has been identified as,Bheem Bahadur Thapa a security guard turned burglar a native of Nepal.

Senior officer, told media persons,a complainant Shobha Ananda Bhaktan,a central government employee and her husband had gone to airport to pick up their children on October 8,the couple did not lock the main door and left in a hurry.

The theft came to light when the family returned home and found someone has entered the house and ransacked and fled away with cash of Rs.2.5 lakhs and gold ornaments worth Rs.11 lakhs and later filed a complaint in Annapoorneshwari Nagar police station in this regard.

Based on the complaint,a special crime squad of ACP,Kengerigate sub-division headed by ACP, T Kodandarama swung into action and visited the crime spot and after inspecting the spot and collecting details the team started analysing using technology skill the team identified the identity of the accused.

After getting identity of the accused the team circulated to all the police stations and with the help of neighbouring stations and technical support the team zeroed in one person identified as Bheem Bahadur Thapa.

The team during questioning led the accused to confessed the crime and he revealed that he,Bheem Bahadur Thapa,work as security guard in HSR Layout on day time and move around the area in night time to identify the locked house at night,noticed this and gained entry ransacked the house and made away with Rs.2.5 lakh cash and gold valuables total worth Rs.11 lakh.

A detailed investigation by the team the accused spilled the beans and revealed that Thapa would move around the house on the pretext of night watchman work and scouting the area and used monitor the locked houses. 

Later he would approach the house by knocking the door and pressing call bell to confirm if there is any response from inside,before striking and commit burglary and fled away with booty.

Based on his statement the team recovered 9 lakh rupees worth gold valuables,while further investigations are on to ascertain his criminal background and to recover remaining property from him.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West Soumendhu Mukherjee DCP West Dr Sanjeev M Patil ACP T Kodandarama and his team as special crime squad who has done a exemplary and meticulous investigation in nabbing the notorious burglar security guard turned burglar and a suitable reward will be given to the whole team who has worked tirelessly in nabbing the offender he added.

Hubballi(KTK)(PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday hinted that the draft of the anti-conversion bill would be approved by the state cabinet and it may be introduced in the winter session of the assembly in Belagavi.

The cabinet is expected to meet during the Belagavi assembly session, which begins from December 13.

“A majority of people want to ban religious conversion. The law department is reviewing it (draft bill). After the review, it will be cleared in the cabinet meeting,” he told reporters here.

“In all probabilities, the draft rule proposed by the law department would be approved and the subject may come up for discussion (in the assembly session),” Bommai said.

Claiming that religious conversion was not good for the society, the CM said the downtrodden people should not succumb to it.

He explained that his government is trying to bring a law to curb religious conversions to prevent people from facing hardship in the families.

He, however, clarified that people of all religious communities need not panic with respect to the anti-conversion law.

“Hindus, Christians, Muslims and Sikhs are the faiths recognised by the constitution and there is no problem for people to pray or follow their respective religions. However, there is no scope for misusing someone’s poverty to lure them to change their faith,” Bommai said.

The Chief Minister said religious conversion had always been a matter of debate since the days of country’s independence, and several states have introduced anti-conversion laws.

Many Christian organisations, including the Archdiocese of Bangalore, have opposed the proposed anti-conversion bill.