Pramesh Jain

The Vijayapura police on Tuesday arrested a 41-year-old priest for performing pooja at the temple in Bestarapete in Vijayapura in the outskirts of the city during lockdown on Tuesday.

The police have arrested Ramakrishna,priest of Gangamma temple.

Senior officer told reporters,Nagesh,Head constable of Vijayapura station was on patrolling duty and noticed the priest had opened the temple for public and performed puja for the crowd of around 25 people .

The people were seen not wearing masks nor following social distancing norms.This is clear violations of the lockdown and the rules laid down by the government .

The police has video recorded the ritual before arresting Ramakrishnappa and others booked charging him under Karnataka Epidemic disease Act and they were later released on station bail he added.

Naresh Bhandari 

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The city of Bengaluru is known to be a melting pot of cultures. From delicious food and architecture heritage to being a hub for innovation and technology, it has carved a niche for itself as one of the most progressive cities in India. The rich arts and culture and the graciously warm people further sets it apart. Through the show, Namma Super Bengaluru, BIG FM celebrates every aspect of the city that makes it Super! The show also features Super Bengalureans who have made the city and its people immensely proud. This includes entrepreneurs and innovators to local heroes who are bringing about a positive change in the society through their work. The show will also celebrate and rejoice the various pride aspects as it features and sheds light on the city being the breeding ground for start ups and putting India’s IT sector on the global map along with talking about its people who are extremely free-spirited, culturally rich and enterprising.

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Pramesh Jain

The West Division police of Upparpet police on tuesday arrested three persons and recovered eight stolen bikes worth Rs 7.3 lakh from them.

The accused Syed Nazim,23,Imran Shariff,21,and Saqlain Ahmed, 21 from Shivajinagar were caught during a lock down enforcement checks.

Senior officer told media persons,2 suspicious persons were detained at COVID lockdown enforcement check point in upparpet police station limits.

The police team deployed at checkpoint who were on patrolling noticed two persons who were moving suspiciously and when the police party questioned them why they are out after 10 am the duo dint gave proper information and on suspect the team detained both of them and took them to station for further questioning.

During investigation the team got suspicion on their behaviour and the team was not satisfied with their statement the crime team grilled them in police style who spilled the beans and a detailed investigation by the inspector and team led them to confess the crime.

The duo said they were moving around to target lonely people and said that on Monday he and his associates confronted,Manjunath,a 34-year-old salesman near Tulasi Park, kempegowda metro station in Upparpet and robbed his mobile phone at knife point.

Manjunath was trying to book bike on rent from his mobile,when the accused approached him on the pretext of inquiring an address and took away mobile phone worth Rs 13,000 and escaped.

Based on their statement the team arrested his associate and based on their confession the police recovered the 8 stolen bikes and a mobile phone which they had robbed from a 34 year old salesman on Monday with this the team has recovered stolen property Worth Rs.7.3 lakhs from them.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr.Sanjeev M Patil,ACP,P Ravi, PI,Shivaswamy CB,PSI,Narayan,and crime staff as,Mahadevaswamy,Mahadevappa,and other crime staff has been appreciated for their exemplary work done in nabbing the trio and recovering stolen bikes and mobile phone from them and for the commendable job done by the team a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

The CCB officials probing the bed allotment cash for bed scam racket which was exposed by BJP MP Tejasvi Surya and other MLA’s has arrested a prime suspect Kingpin who is BJP MLA Satish Reddy close aide.

The accused has been identified as,Babu,34,resident of Roopena Agrahara.

Senior officer told media persons,
Continuing investigations into the bed allotment, the CCB officials on Tuesday arrested Babu,34, one of the prime suspects in the racket.

During investigation it was found the accused is said be close to Bommanhalli MLA,Satish Reddy,who earlier claimed to have exposed the bed allotment scam.

The team conducted a detailed probe into the matter and it was revealed that Babu,resident of Roopena Agrahara used to run the racket through Nethravathy,a social activist and Rohith Kumar who were arrested by the Jayanagar police earlier.

While Nethra and Rohith used to get the customers for the beds through thier whatsapp network,Babu used to coordinate with the bed availability and hospital details.

The accused then give them commission and keep the lion share of the money they would get from the bed allotment scam,which differ from person to person based on his financial status.

Soon after the arrest of Nethra and Rohith Babu avoided the arrest by getting admitted for covid treatment.However the CCB kept a close watch and arrested him on Tuesday.

Last week CCB team arrested accused identified as, Anthony,working as Marketing executive in Sapthagiri hospital who used to take money from patients to get bed allotted.

We produced him before the magistrate through video conference and the court has remanded him to CCB police custody till May 31 to ascertain his network and investigate more about the racket he added.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated Joint CP Crime,Sandeep Patil,DCP Crime-1,KP Ravikumar,ACPs,as, Gautam Kumar,Hanumantharaya,Parameshwar and other staff for the excellent investigation and arresting the kingpin of the Racket and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

The West Division police of Kengeri police on Tuesday arrested two persons who assaulted the security guard of BGS hospital and abused the doctor and damaged the property by hurling stone at the glass doors of hospital and shattering them on Sunday

The accused has been identified as,Prashanth, 39,a driver by profession and his relative Venkatesh, 32,

Senior officer told media persons,we have arrested two persons for creating Mayhem at the BGS hospital who has damaged the hospital property and assaulted doctors and hospital staff.

The duo created ruckus after they were not allowed to visit their relative who was admitted in the hospital for covid treatment .

The duo alleged that they were not allowed to visit their relatives for the last four days and abused and beat up the security guard who stopped them from entering the hospital.

The duo later used unparliamentary language against the doctors and smashed the glass doors with a stone and created a tense situation.

The hospital authorities immediately intimated the Kengeri police inspector, Inspector Vasanth and his team rushed to the spot and nabbed to duo and took them to station for further questioning.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and said that they engaged in assault with the hospital staff and doctors as they were not allowing them in to meet a relative. They have been booked for a case of assault,vandalising hospital property and also under sections of the NDMA and further investigation is on.

Pramesh Jain

The West Division police of Vijayanagar police on Tuesday booked a private hospital for denying treatment to a 64-year-old covid patient after she refused to buy the Remdesivir injection offered by the hospital at Rs.15,000 per each shot and later sourced it from the health department.

Upset About the fact that the family complained  to the health department,the hospital discharged the patient and later refused to readmit her after she developed health complications.

The matter was brought to the notice of the health officer BBMP, Dr.Rajendra,who in turn filed a complaint after taking stock of the situation with the jurisdictional Vijayanagar police seeking legal action against the hospital authorities.

Senior officer told reporters,based on the complaint,the Vijayanagar police registered a case against Bharathy Hospital situated in Prashanthnagar.

Dr Rajendra in his complaint said that the victim Gouramma of JP Nagar was admitted to Bharathy hospital on May 8 after she was tested Covid positive .

The hospital demanded RS.15,000 from the family to give Remdesivir injection to the patient.

Since the family could not afford it,they sought the help of BBMP for assistance who in turn arranged the injection through the drug inspector of the area concerned.

The hospital staff,agitated that the family had complained against them,the staff discharged the patients the next day without treatment and also mentioned in the discharge summary that the patient has recovered.

Soon after returning home the patient developed breathing problems and were taken back to the Bharathy hospital where they refused to admit .

The family approached the BBMP again and took the patient to another hospital he said in his complaint.

The Vijayanagar police have booked the Bharathy Hospital charging the hospital management under Essential Commodities Act and also under section 308 (Attempt To commit culpable homicide)of IPC and are investigating it further he added.

Pramesh Jain

The West Division police of Basaveshwaranagar police have arrested three persons who were selling Remdesivir injections in black market charging exorbitant price and recovered 25 vials from them.

The accused has been identified as Sanjeev Kumar,32,from Bommanahalli in Electronic city and his associates Pratheek,27,and Abhijith,20 . 

Senior officer,told reporters,our Basaveshwaranagar police inspector,E Yeriswamy received a reliable inputs that a person is indulged in selling Remdesivir injections and the informant passed all details about the person.

After getting information the Basaveshwaranagar police inspector,Yeriswamy,acting on the reliable inputs he contacted the person on his mobile number who introduced himself as Sanjeev Kumar and asked to contact a person by name Abhijit and he passed his number.

Our Inspector posing as prospective customer contacted the person on his mobile number seeking a Remdesivir injections the caller told Inspector he has got vials and agreed to send so we ordered 2 vials for which he agreed and told us he is selling for Rs.10,000 each Vials and  asked to send advance payment through online.

To gain his confidence the Inspector transferred the advance payment and after receiving the payment the person agreed to send two vials the accused sent a person identified as Abhijith to hand over the two vials on Thimmaiah road at Mahaganapathinagar on Monday and to get the remaining amount.

As soon as he arrived with the Remdesivir vials the Inspector and his team caught him red handed and took him to police station for questioning.

During Investigation the accused confessed the crime and based on his confession the team arrested Sanjeev and Pratheek and recovered a total of 25 vials from their possession.

A detailed investigation by the team led the accused to confess the crime and it was revealed that they are working in a pharmacy and sourced the Remdesivir from their contact in Kerala so that they could sell it in the city due to the demand and make quick money.

The MRP of the injection is Rs 3400 per vial but the accused are selling it for Rs 10,000 each vial.

The trio have been booked under Drug control Act and cheating and we have taken them into custody for further investigations and to ascertain their network.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr.Sanjeev M Patil,ACP, Vijayanagar Sub-Division,K Nanjundegowda,PI,E Yeriswamy,PSI,as,Kubera,ASI,Puttaswamy,and crime staff as,Mohammed Ali,Raghu,Ramesh, Srinivas and Rupesh has been appreciated for the exemplary work done by them in busting the racket and nabbing the trio and the team has successfully seized 25 vials from them and a for the excellent work done by the team a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

BENGALURU: There has been an intense political activity in the state since Saturday with prominent leaders rushing off to Delhi and some top ministers holding a hush-hush meeting.Minor Irrigation Minister CP Yogeshwara who visits New Delhi regularly to meet the party central leadership was on Monday night accompanied by party MLA Arvind Bellad, who is considered an upcoming leader.

Though Yogeshwara and Bellad, who represents the Hubli-Dharwad South constituency, could not meet any of the top leaders, they spoke to Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh over phone, party .It is discussed within party circles that Bellad, a LIngayat leader, is one of the top names doing the rounds for the chief minister’s post if there is a vacancy at the top.

It was said that Mines and Geology Minister Murugesh Nirani too was expected to head to Delhi, but the visit was cancelled at the last minute. The sudden intense activity, coming ahead of the cabinet meeting on Thursday, has raised many eyebrows within BJP circles.What set off the buzz was the meeting in Hubballi on Saturday. Union minister Pralhad Joshi, who too is said to be in the race for the CM’s post, met ministers Dr K Sudhakar, Byrathi Basavraj and former minister Ramesh Jarkiholi, who were instrumental in bringing BJP to power. 

Sudhakar, who was visiting Tumakuru, later headed to Chitradurga, where he was joined by Byrathi Basavraj. The duo then went to Shiggaon, Haveri to meet Home Minister Basavraj Bommai and PWD Minister CM Udasi. The four met over dinner. But more interesting was the breakfast meeting the next morning in Hubballi where Pralhad Joshi joined them.