Pramesh Jain

The North Division police of Nandini layout police arrested a 21 year old youth for house break theft.The police recovered intact 194 gram of gold valuables worth Rs.8.5 lakhs from his possession.

The accused has been identified as,Dilip alias Kutty,21,resident of Laggere a welder by profession.

Senior officer told media persons,On May 24,the shop owner,Bharathi KP, registered a complaint in Nandini layout police station stating that when she went out of station the next day morning she received a call from her neighbour that someone has entered the house by breaking the door lock.

As soon she heard the news she returned back to Bengaluru and found that someone has break opened her door and made away with 194 grams of gold ornaments from her house.

Based on complaint the crime team swung into action the PSI,of Nandini layout,Naveed along with crime staff visited the house and inspected the area and after inspecting the area the team collected information from the complainant as does she has any doubt against anyone.

The complainant told that before leaving to Kanakapura she has informed about this to her regular customer who is regular customer of her shop who buys cigarettes so she said him to stock up the cigarette for 2 days.

The team Inspected the area and pressed into action and visited the neighborhood areas and after checking the CCTV cameras installed in the area the team got a vital clue as suspect persons footage.

The team showed the CCTV footage to the complainant after seeing the footage she recognised the person and said that he is her regular customer.

Based on the identification the team who were on patrolling on 28th May near Laggere area noticed a person moving suspiciously in the area and when our team checked that he is the same person to whom they are searching the team secured the suspect and took him to station for questioning.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and the accused has been identified as, Dilip Kutty,21,a welder by profession and resident of  Laggere used to buy cigarettes from a grocery shop close to his house regularly,

And when he got to know that the owner of the house is not in station Dilip hatched a plan and robbed the house the same night and made away with the valuables .

During the interrogation he revealed that he had kept stolen valuables at his house since he could not dispose due to lockdown the team has recovered stolen 194 grams of gold ornaments worth of Rs.8.5 lakhs intact from his house where he has hided the gold after commiting crime and the equipment used in commiting crime has been recovered from him.

A case has been registered in Nandini layout police station and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP North,Dharmendra Kumar Meena, ACP,Malleswaram sub-division,KS Venkatesh Naidu,PI,Venkategowda,PSI,Naveed,and his crime staff as, Umesh,Manjunath,Lokesh,Umesh, Abhishek,Basavanna and others has successfully nabbed the HBT offender and recovered gold ornaments intact and for the commendable job done by them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

The Central Crime Branch,Bengaluru which is investigating the alleged bed-blocking scam in BBMP, arrested two more persons in this connection.A war room employee used to share the distress callers numbers with his associate and later the bed was blocked by taking money from such patients.

The accused have been identified as,Varun S,works in Bommanahalli war room and his associate Yeshwanth Kumar Murali,21.

Senior officer told reporters,Investigations revealed that Varun used to gather details pof patients and their family members approaching the war room for help and hand it over to Yeshwanth Kumar.

The arrest comes a day after Bommanahalli MLA Satish Reddy’s aide Babu was arrested following CCTV footage evidence and war room staff’s statements.

Yeshwanth in turn contacts the family members depending on their desperate situation,offers to arrange a bed for a price .

Varun using his resources arranges the bed and both would get the share of their money out of it.

While probing the scam,the CCB officials stumble upon their names and take them into custody.A detailed questioning led them to confess.

The police have now taken their bank account details to ascertain how many people the duo had cheated and their possible links with the accused arrested earlier .

The CCB have so far arrested 11 persons and are investigating further he added.

Pramesh Jain

The CCB Officials on Thursday arrested two cab drivers for selling oxygen cylinders in black market charging exorbitant price.

The accused has been identified as Arun Kumar, 34 from KGF and Syed Shakeeb, 27,resident of Audugodi .

Senior officer told media persons,our OCW Wing of CCB received a credible information that two persons are indulged in selling Oxygen Cylinders in black market charging exorbitant price and will be taking in two car passing through Yelahanka New Town area.

Based on information team headed by ACP, Dharmendra HN and team swung into action and rushed to spot and team were on alert to catch the culprits as they noticed two cars coming they flagged them and intercepted the car and found Jumbo Medical cylinder in their possession.

The accused were arrested near Yelahanka new town while they were heading to Doddaballapura alone with three cylinders in two cars .

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and revealed that using his contact,sourced oxygen cylinders and sold them to the people in the rural areas in black.

With their arrest the team has seized 5 Jumbo Medical cylinder from them and a case has been registered in Yelahanka New Town police station.Both the accused has been taken the accused into custody to investigate further .

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Joint CP Crime,Sandeep Patil,DCP Crime-1,KP Ravikumar,ACP, Dharmendra HN,PI,Girish Naik C and other crime staff has been appreciated for the commendable job done by them and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

BENGALURU: Hospitals in the city continue to battle with a record number of cases of mucormycosis, or black fungus, with the most crucial anti-fungal drug — Amphotericin-B — being provided in “trickles” from the government. Hospitals, however, agree that government control of the drug is necessary to avoid hoarding and misuse.The Centre on Thursday allocated 5,190 vials of Amphotericin-B to Karnataka. 

“There was zero availability of Amphotericin-B in the hospital till Wednesday morning, when we received 40 vials of the drug from the government. On Thursday evening, the vials were exhausted and we are back to zero stock of Amphotericin-B. In the last two weeks we have received 63 murcomycosis patients. Of them, 55 have been operated upon and six have passed away,” said Dr Sanjiv Lewin, chief of medical services, St Johns Medical College & Hospital. He said in the absence of Amphotericin-B, the hospital is administering Posaconazole to patients, but there is a shortage of even this drug. “We have received 180 doses of Posaconazole from the government on Wednesday and we are now left with 40 doses,” he said.

Surgical debridement accompanied with Amphotericin-B is key to controlling the infection. Nearly a century-old-disease, which was considered rare during the pre-Covid time, is now a medical surge with uncontrolled blood sugar and indiscriminate use of immuno-suppressant drugs to treat Covid patients  emerging as the main reasons behind the rise in black fungus cases.“We hardly used to see three to five cases in a year. Smaller hospitals may not have come across even a single case before the pandemic. Today, we have 35 cases in the hospital and we are getting Amphotericin-B in trickles from the government,” said Dr Raman,  consultant ENT specialist, Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road.

Lack of Amphotericin-B makes treatment incomplete. “We do good surgeries, but feel disgusted at the end in the absence of the important arm of treatment,” said Dr Raman.“From 3-4 cases a year before Covid, we have recently operated on 70 patients in the hospital. The drugs are not freely available,” said Dr Susheen Dutt, consultant ENT specialist, Fortis Hospital. “It was an uncommon infection before Covid. We hardly got 30 cases in a year since the 1990s. In the last two weeks, the hospital has got 63 patients,” said Dr Lewin.

BENGALURU: With an addition of 24,214 fresh cases, the state’s Covid-19 tally touched the 25-lakh mark (25,23,998 cases) on Thursday. With this, the positivity rate rose to 8.64 per cent from 8.60 per cent. The death toll too crossed the 27,000-mark (27,405) since the beginning of the pandemic last year with 476 people succumbing to the virus in the State on Thursday.

In Bengaluru, 5,949 cases were added which took the city tally  to 11,43,878 cases.Also, 273 deaths took the city’s mortality rate from 1.06 per cent to 1.08 per cent.There were 31,459 discharges in the State on Thursday, which took the recovery rate to 82.97 per cent from  82.52 per cent. Active cases in the State too saw a dip from 4.09 lakh on Wednesday to  4.02 lakh on Thursday.

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Bengaluru: Renowned educationist, founder of  Daily Salar newspaper, and former Pro-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Dr Mumtaz Ahmed Khan passed away Thursday evening in Bengaluru. He was 86.

Popularly known as as ‘Baba-e-Taalim’, for his services in Education sector, Dr Mumtaz Ahmed Khan founded the Al-Ameen Educational Society in 1966.

The group now has more than 200 in Karnataka and all over the country. In Bengaluru, the Al-Ameen institution has various colleges catering to varied streams from pre-university, degree, post-graduation Institute of Management, College of Pharmacy, and Law College to the Al-Ameen College of Education.

Born on 6 September 1935 in Trichy in Tamil Nadu, Dr Khan did his MBBS at Madras University, Chennai in 1963. 

He is a recipient of several awards like Karnataka Rajyothsava award (1990), Kempegowda Award, Junior Jayees Award and Public Relation Society of India Award.

He is survived by his wife, one son, and two daughters.

Pramesh Jain

The East Division police of Ramamurthynagar  police on Thursday arrested a group of six persons including two woman who brutally tortured and violated a woman reportedly hailing from Bangladesh and recorded the video before circulating it among their friends in West Bengal and Assam.

The incident took place in Bengaluru almost six days ago.

A gut-wrenching video of the attack,which was circulated on social media,has generated immense outrage.

By following the chain of forwards,they were able to trace the origin of the video to a cell phone number in Bengaluru.

The Bengaluru city police were alerted and special teams were formed to trace the perpetrators within hours, tracked down the gang on Thursday evening.

They were arrested from a rented house at Avalahalli,Ramamurthynagar.The arrested men are reportedly labourers.

The accused perpetrators has been identified as,Sagar,Mohammed Baba Sheikh,Ridoy Babu and Hakeel all resident of Avalahalli hailing from Bangladesh.

Senior officer told reporters,we received a alert from Assam and West Bengal police regarding the horrific incident took place as the video went viral prompting the Assam and West Bengal  police to initiate investigation and later the it was  traced the source of the video to the Bengaluru city.

Based on the alert from the Assam police, Bengaluru city police Commissioner,Kamal Pant immediately rushed to Ramamurthynagar police station along with Addl CP East,S Murugan in the evening to take stock of the situation and collected all information from DCP East,Dr.SD Sharanappa.

The special teams were formed to nab the perverts who has made the video viral and based on their pictures which went viral the team traced their location and nabbed all the five member gang from a house in Avalahalli area.

The arrested accused identified Sagar, Mohammed Baba Sheikh, Ridoy Babu and Hakeel .

Initial probe revealed that the girl had some financial dispute with the accused and escaped.

The accused traced the victim and tortured her brutally and violated her before circulating the video.

The six perverts accused brutalized the women and even videographed the whole crime in their mobile phone and circulated it among their friends in Assam and West Bengal.

A official release by the Bengaluru Police,said,Based on a video clip,where in one woman was subjected to physical abuse and torture by a group of people,six culprits including a woman,visible in the clip were immediately traced and secured by Ramamurthynagar Police.

On the basis of the contents in the video clip and facts as disclosed during preliminary interrogation of the secured persons,a Suo Motto case of rape,assault and under other relevant provisions of law,has been registered against the accused in Ramamurthy Nagar Police Station.

The Bengaluru police said the woman is currently in another state and a team has been sent to trace her.Once she is back,her statement will be recorded before a magistrate.

As per the information revealed so far,all of them are part of same group and believed to be from Bangladesh.

Due to financial differences,culprits brutalized the victim,who is also said to be a Bangladeshi, brought to India for human trafficking.

Investigation is being carried out in full earnestness,under the close supervision
of senior officers a official release said.