Pramesh Jain

The South Division police of Kumaraswamy Layout busted an interstate drug racket and arrested three persons and recovered 70 kgs of Marijuana and 1 kg of hashish oil worth Rs 21 lakh from them.

The accused has been identified as,Kaala Shiva Jamil ,25, Kollu Govinda, 25 and Hari Prasad from East Godhavari and Chittor district of Andhra Pradesh.

The trio were caught red handed while they were waiting for their customers at Jaraganahalli bus stop on Kanakpura road to deliver the goods.

Senior officer told media persons,Our Kumaraswamy layout police inspector,P  Shivakumar, received a credible information that three persons are in Jaraganahalli play ground with huge quantity of drugs substances with them and are waiting to deliver to their clients.

After receiving the information Inspector informed the senior officers as ACP,DCP regarding the information, Senior officer asked to raid the place and nab the peddlers by taking additional force with them and handle carefully.

Based on the information,ACP,TM Shivakumar,along with inspector and crime staff rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area by rounding up the ground from all the corners.

The ACP and his team swung into action and after keeping a close watch the team entered the ground and secured three persons and after searching their belongings the team found Marijauna and Hashish oil in their possession the team secured them red handed.

After securing them the team questioned them and during interrogation the accused confessed the crime and the trio said they source the drugs from Andhra Pradesh and deliver it to their contacts in the South and Eastern part of the city in bulk.

The accused said that they would smuggle the narcotics in buses since lock down,as getting the narcotics in the car is risky at the border check posts so they smuggled the drugs in plastic gunny bags.

He even said that they obtained the information about the Andhra Pradesh peddlers a few days ago while carrying out surveillance and a special drive against the drug addicts in their jurisdiction.

Based on the information, the police kept a tab and waited at the bus stop in disguise and caught the trio red handed after they got down from the bus and waited for their clients to deliver the narcotics packets.

The team has recovered totally 75 kgs of Marijuana and 1kg of Hashish oil Worth of Rs.21 lakh from them and a case under NDPS Act has been registered against the accused and further investigation is on to nab other drug peddlers he added.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,S Murugan, DCP South,Harish Pandey,ACP,Subramanyanagar Sub-Division,TM Shivakumar,PI,P Shivakumar,PSIs,as,Nagesh HM,and Sathyamurthy and crime staff as,Ravikumar, Kempegowda,Bhukanth,Eshwarappa,Ananth Reddy,Anekanth Bilagi,Mahantesh K,Girish,Umesh and Shivaram has been appreciated for nabbing the trio inter-state drug peddler and seizing huge quantity of drugs from them a suitable reward will be given to the team for the exemplary work done by them he added.

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court directed the State Government not to precipitate the matter for two weeks pursuant to the notifications issued with regard to online registration of undergraduates who have completed MBBS during 2021 for compulsory rural service. However, this interim order is confined to 184 MBBS candidates who have approached the court and the government is at liberty to proceed with implementation of notifications issued over online registration with regard to other candidates, except petitioners, the court added. Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum passed the interim order after hearing the petition filed by Dr N Prarthana and 183 others.

The petitioners have challenged the notification issued by the state government on June 8 and a corrigendum dated June 17, asking the undergraduates who have completed their MBBS on government seats during the year 2021 to register online for rural posting. The petitioners have further contended that the notifications issued by the State Government is discriminatory in nature, as it excludes other undergraduates of the same batch and previous batches. The notification is contrary to Karnataka Compulsory Service by Candidates Completed Medical Courses Act, the petitioners further alleged.

BENGALURU: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa called on Governor Vajubhai Vala impromptu on Wednesday evening, raising eyebrows in political circles. While Raj Bhavan said it was a courtesy call and the CM claimed he was visiting Vala to check on his health after the eye surgery, it came at a time when BJP leaders continue to meet party central leaders and when speculation is rife that a cabinet reshuffle is on the cards.

After the meeting with the Governor, Yediyurappa expressed confidence that he will continue in his post for the next two years. “I have the responsibility to ensure good work for the State for the next two years. I am entrusted with the challenge of bringing the party back to power with 130 seats after two years. I give this assurance to the people and cadres of BJP,” he said. “The governor gave me a patient hearing on various issues. We didn’t discuss politics but about the State’s welfare and Covid management. He has appreciated our government’s work and has given suggestions,” he added.

In Mysuru, BJP state vice-president and Yediyurappa’s son Vijayendra claimed that the leadership change is a “closed chapter”. He said, “BJP state in-charge Arun Singh has clearly said Yediyurappa has given good administration and will complete his full term as chief minister. There is no need to discuss it again and again.”

BJP insiders have maintained that Vala is the BJP central leadership’s point person for communicating with the State government remotely.  Wednesday’s meeting too is being viewed as Yediyurappa receiving a feedback from the governor and conveying his stand over recent developments in the party to the central leadership through Vala. Sources close to the CM  said that the cabinet reshuffle is being considered later in July or August when Yediyurappa completes two years in office.

Pramesh Jain

The South Division police of Girinagar police have booked a gym trainer for cheating a 26-year-old techie offering him to help get a six pack .

The victim,Koushik K,stated in his complaint that he got enrolled in the empower fitness centre and paid the fee of Rs 3,000 for three months.

The accused offered to help him get the desired results within three months and took Rs 1.4 lakh.

Since the accused Mohan Kumar was not a certified trainer and due to an unscientific exercise routine,Kaushik developed health complications and was under medical treatment for one week .

Later Mohan Kumar forced him to get a personal loan of Rs 6 lakh to help him and promised to pay him in instalments.

Initially Kumar paid a few instalments but later refused to pay following which Kaushik started getting calls from the banks to repay the loan.

When Koushik confronted Mohan threatened him with dire consequences and refused to pay a total of Rs 6.2 lakh dues he said in his complaint.

Senior officer told reporters,Based on the complaint the police summoned Mohan Kumar and questioned him.

Mohan claimed that the duo had entered an agreement to run the gym in partnership and Koushik invested money.

As per the agreement the duo was supposed to share the profit but due to covid pandemic the business was under loss.

The police have now asked Mohan to get the agreement papers and released documents for further investigations.

Pramesh Jain

Making a major breakthrough in the Bengaluru riots Case,the National Investigation Agency has arrested Syed Abbas,a key conspirator who was absconding ever since the riots rocked the city.

As per NIA, Abbas was the key conspirator for the rioting that took place in KG Halli on 11th August 2020.

The accused Syed Abbas,38,resident of   Govindpur,was wanted for his involvement in conspiracy and rioting at KG Halli police station.

NIA Spokesperson said,Abbas has been accused of rioting and part of unruly mob which armed with deadly weapons who had unlawfully and attacked and injured many police officers.

They had also set fire to KG Halli Police Station using Petrol bombs.Government vehicles parked in the vicinity of the police station were damaged and set on fire, the NIA release,said.

The NIA had re-registered the case in September 2020 and taken up the investigation.Earlier NIA had charge sheeted 138 accused persons in the case.

Investigation has revealed that accused Syed Abbas is the president of SDPI Nagawara,Ward.

He along with his co-conspirators including other charge sheeted accused persons are office bearers of SDPI (Nagawara ward)and were actively involved in burning vehicles and attacking police officers on duty at KG Halli Police Station.

Accused Syed Abbas was produced before NIA Special Court, Bengaluru and taken on 06 days custody by NIA.Further investigation are on.

On August 11th 2020,Bengaluru witnessed rioting at KG Halli Police Station by an unruly mob armed with deadly weapons who had unlawfully gathered outside the station.The violence had broken out over a derogatory social media post against Islam by Navin Kumar,nephew of Pulikeshinagar MLA Akhanda Sreenivasa Murthy.

The mob had attacked and injured many police officers.They had also set fire to KG Halli Police Station using petrol bombs.Government vehicles parked in the vicinity of the police station were damaged and set on fire.

The case was originally registered at KG Halli Police Station in Bengaluru. NIA had re-registered the case and taken up the investigation. Five months after taking over the investigation, the NIA had chargesheeted 138 accused persons in the case.

BENGALURU: As a major lack of coordination among State cabinet ministers over Covid-related issues came out in the open, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Tuesday launched into firefighting yet again. He clarified that the decision to hold SSLC exams was not unilateral.

The CM’s defence of Primary and Secondary Education Minister Suresh Kumar was in view of Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar’s public statement that he wasn’t aware of the decision to hold board exams for SSLC students. Suresh Kumar on Monday announced dates for the exams and within hours, Sudhakar said his colleague hadn’t spoken to him about it, suggesting that the decision may have been taken unilaterally.“Suresh Kumar held discussions with me before deciding on SSLC exam dates. The decision was taken only after a thorough discussion, keeping the welfare of students in mind. This wasn’t a unilateral decision. It is unnecessary to create confusion,” tweeted Yediyurappa from his official handle.

This public declaration comes as an embarrassment to Sudhakar, who is already sulking over being purportedly sidelined in key decisions. Ever since Deputy Chief Minister Dr CN Ashwath Narayan was made the Chief of Covid Task Force, tensions have been simmering between the two leaders over key issues. While Sudhakar has been pushing for a strict lockdown, Ashwath Narayan wants opening up of all sectors with norms. The two ministers have been taking contradictory views on vaccines, members in the expert committee, medicines, oxygen augmentation etc. 

BJP sources said that tensions came to a boiling point at a closed-door meeting a month ago when Covid cases were at a peak. Ashwath Narayan, along with other ministers, allegedly blamed Sudhakar’s “inept” handling of the situation for the rise in cases. Sources added that the two ministers shouted at each other and the Chief Minister had to intervene to pacify them. The sources said apparent sidelining of Sudhakar by other ministers has also sparked off a ‘newcomers’ versus ‘old timers’ tiff. Sources close to Sudhakar said that he has been trying to take up the issue of his colleagues undermining his authority with Yediyurappa and BJP central leader ship , but to no avail.

Instances that have fuelled tensions between ministers

•  Appointment of Dr CN Ashwath Narayan as head of the Covid task force
•  Opening of theatres, swimming pools and malls during the pandemic
•  Vaccine supply and stock
•  Appointment of members for new expert committee on the Covix third wave
•  Appointment of S M Jayakara as the interim vice-chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences

BELAGAVI: Notwithstanding the assurance given by the BJP leadership that he will be re-inducted into the state cabinet once he gets a clean chit in the sex CD case, former water resources minister Ramesh Jarkiholi landed in Delhi on Tuesday afternoon and met several BJP and RSS leaders in the evening. 

Sources close to Jarkiholi said the latter is not ready to rely on either Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa or the party leaders in Karnataka and that is why he rushed to Delhi in haste to meet the top leadership to make sure that he is re-inducted into the cabinet at the earliest.

After a meeting with his brothers and family in Gokak on Monday, Jarkiholi had decided to wait for some days without meeting any of the leaders until the government filed a B-report to close the CD case. However, Jarkiholi changed his mind suddenly on Tuesday and rushed to Delhi.

He met former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at the residence of a senior RSS leader in the capital and held a 45-minute meeting before speaking to media persons in the evening. He said he had been backstabbed by three BJP leaders in Karnataka and that he would teach them a fitting lesson.
While denying reports that he would resign as MLA, Jarkiholi said there was no question of quitting the assembly seat. 

Jarkiholi did not disclose more on his meeting with Fadnavis but sources said he would not stop until the party helped him get back into the state cabinet. 

“Jarkiholi is expected to meet some other top party leaders in Delhi to get the CD case closed as soon as possible. A court hearing into the CD case is scheduled to come up in Karnataka High Court in a few days,” sources added.

The Gokak MLA is in touch with most of the BJP leaders, including Fadnavis, who were involved in the ‘Operation Lotus’ to help bring 17 other party MLAs into the BJP to help BS Yediyurappa form the government.

Pramesh Jain

The West division police taken Mala and her son Arul into custody till July 2 to probe in detail about the reason behind the gruesome murder of Rekha Kadiresh in front of her office on Thursday.

Senior officer told media persons,Mala and Arul are prime accused in the case that gave supari to Peter,to eliminate Rekha.Rekha was growing politically strong and even her name was proposed by the BJP for the upcoming BBMP elections.

Mala wanted to gain the control of area politically and wanted her daughter in law to contest the election,but Rekha was the major hurdle .

Rekha was not only growing strong in the area but also ignoring Mala and Kadiresh family which was one of the reason behind her murder.

Mala realized that Rekha had even sidelined her close confidant Peter completely,she approached Peter and offered Supari to eliminate promising huge sum of money and also promised to bear legal expenses.

The police team who suspected Mala’s role in the murder began to gather details from the neighbours in the area and after gathering evidence the team arrested her after confirming her involvement .

While one team of police is grilling Mala and Arul, the other teams continue to track down other accused who were part of the conspiracy and execution of murder.

BJP’s NR Ramesh submitted a written complaint against Atush to interrogate him in the case as we suspect he is involved in the murder supporting financially to kill the Former BJP corporator Rekha Kadiresh he said in his letter.

Cops to Re-open Rowdy Sheet against Peter :

The flower garden area in cottonpet police station limits where the Former Councillor Rekha Kadiresh was hacked to death in broad daylight had a over two decade history of bloody gang wars and series of murder which the police failed to contain.

Though police acted swiftly and cracked the murder and arrested the accused the fact that gruesome murder of Rekha,a woman former  councillor in broad day light,has brought some embarassing moments for the police.

The area is situated behind Vinayaka Theatre on Mysore road,surrounded by four police stations including CCB head office with the Organised Crime Wing,which failed to contain the rowdy activities at its backyard .  

Admitting the failure on their part a senior police officer told reporters,that the murder of Rekha Kadiresh is hard to prevent since family members involved.

However the police failed to notice the growing resentment between Rekha and others,due to a weak intelligence network and improper documentation which is basic to keep tabs on the anti-social elements and gangs.

Another significant factor about bad policing is  that the police revoked rowdy-sheet  against Peter in 2018 despite there were half a dozen cases of murder,robbery and a assault cases pending against him.

After the death of Kadiresh,Rekha kept Peter away and did not support him financially.Upset about this Peter got into his old drug peddling business to eke out a living before he was offered a supari allegedly by Mala to eliminate Rekha,a police officer,said .

With the murder case of Rekha and Peter’s arrest, the police are going to reopen rowdy sheet against him again.

The flower garden area with majority of the  pockets like Anjinappa garden,Bakshi garden, Binny mill,peer boundary,Tippu nagar and  Anandapura has been dominated by gangs for the last two decades,running drug peddling and illicit liquor business .  

It started in 2000 with Alaimani,a notorious gangster who was killed in an encounter for a series of robberies,rapes and peddling .

There are Jhopdi Rajendra,Garden Mani,Surya Appu,Surya Appu,Guppa,Kencha Muruga who attacked each other in a bid to dominate the area and killed each other . 

While some of them including Aatush and  Kadiresh succeeded and made their career in politics .  

The police having good knowledge and documented every gang and gangsters,they failed to prevent attacks and murders occured in the city every time .

Except the  murder of Garden Mani case,no murder cases or any criminal cases reported in the area and charge sheets gets conviction,

Police security stepped up in the area following the murder with police intensified patroling and trying to revoke the local intelligence network to gather advance information and tracking the habitual offenders to regain the control over the area.

This exercise should be done as routine and tough police officers should be deployed to tackle the gangs and withstand political pressures he added.

Parmesh jain

An Army veteran who almost lost Rs.45 lakh of life savings to cyber fraudsters managed to get back within two hours within golden hour by quick thinking and action with the help of bank officials and the police.

Happy about the quick response to help,NK Manchanda,retired Major General wrote to the Director General of police,Praveen Sood,and Commissioner of police,Kamal Pant, appreciating the police for the quick response to save his hard earned savings.

NK Manchanda who was staying in Yelahanka after his retirement in 2004 having a savings bank account in SBI.

Mr.Manchanda received a call on his mobile from a conman posing as executive of the bank asking him to update the KYC since its expiring on Tuesday.

Retired Army Veteran thought it is a call from bank so i followed their instructions and did as they said.

He even said that the conman also sent a link to update the details and as soon as,Mr.Manchanda provided the details,Rs.45 lakh was transferred.

Shocked by this Mr.Manchanda rushed to the nearest Hennur branch and complained to the manager about the incident.

The Manager immediately stopped the payment and asked him to file a complaint with the Cyber crime police immediately .

He later approached Northeast cyber crime police,where Assistant Sub Inspector,Ramesh Ram and PSI,Deepak VR,swung into action and spoke to the manager of Indiranagar SBI to complete the formality and revert the money back to the account.

With collective efforts within the golden hour (two hours of the incident) the money was reverted to Mr.Machanda’ account said Senior officer.

This is the second incident in the last one month where the cyber crime police managed to get back the fraudulent transaction amounts to the victim’s account.

DG-IGP,Praveen Sood,tweeted by appreciating the timely action by the Northeast CEN police personnel, The newly introduced concept of GOLDEN HOUR in cyber crime prevention through CIR system by @CPBlr is doing a great service to the citizens he tweeted.

A message of gratitude to the @BlrCityPolice from an Army Veteran & Major General NK Manchanda (Retd).Highly appreciate the timely & prompt response by SI Deepak and ASI Ramesh of Cybercrime @yelahankaps in preventing a fraudulent transfer from Mr. Manchanda’s bank account.👏👏, Commissioner of police Kamal Pant tweeted.

Finally, Director General and Inspector General of Police, Praveen Sood,has appreciated Bengaluru City Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated,Northeast CEN police personnel as,PSI,VR Deepak and ASI,Ramesh Ram and bank officials for their timely action and helped the Army Veteran to get the money back in the Golden hour and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

The South Division police of Hanumanthanagar police registered an FIR against Sri Vasishta Credit Souharda Sahakari Limited in Bengaluru for allegedly cheating investors.

Based on a complaint filed by Arun BN,the police booked Venakata Narayana KN,Krishna Prasad and other directors for cheating,forgery, misappropriation and criminal breach of trust.

The police have issued a notice to the accused for questioning.

Arun,in his complaint,said that he had made fixed deposit of Rs.99 lakh on behalf of his father Nagaraj BT, 78 year old.

The bank was giving interest till November 2020 before stopping abruptly.When contacted,the bank cited the COVID-19 pandemic and asked to him to wait for a few days.

But when there was no response till June 2021, Arun approached the bank.Despite repeated attempts,there was no response,and later the bank stopped withdrawal of deposits too,he alleged.

Many other investors have approached the jurisdictional DCP arun said.

The bank officials reportedly tried to reason that they have made investments and given loans to many customers but could not collect the profit from the investments or loan repayments due to the Covid -19 pandemic.

Senior officer told reporters,We have registered a FIR and booked the directors and we have sought the details of the investments and issued notice to directors to appear for questioning further investigation is on he added.