Pramesh Jain

The Jeeevanbhimanagar police have arrested a Arogya Mitra staff of Manipal hospital for  dubious admission and blocking of beds at Manipal hospital. 

Nodal officers team headed by Senior officers, as,Alok kumar ADGP KSRP,Captain Manivanan P,IAS unearthed the racket after a surprise check.

The accused has been identified as,Pavan Shetty,Working as Arogya Mitra staff from SAST in Manipal HAL Hospital.

Senior officer said,An Inspection team comprising of two senior officials exposed another bed allotment scam and caught Arogya Mitra staff for running the racket at Manipal hospital on old airport road on Friday.

The Inspections team comprising of Captain Manivannan,and ADGP, (KSRP) Alok Kumar, found irregularities in connection with the admission and discharge of the patients after their surprise visit to the hospital.

Based on the complaint filed by Ravindra Kumar, Executive Engineer of BWSSB and part of the inspection team,the Jeeevanbhimanagar police registered and FIR against Pavan Shetty,working as the Arogya Mitra staff from SAST in Manipal HAL hospital.

Pavan was deployed as Arogya Mitra staff as incharge of Covid19 patients admission to manipal hospital who are refereed by BBMP with BU numbers.

However the probe by the inspection team  revealed that he had admitted Subramanyam J and Rajgopal Achar of Kolar and Tumakuru district.

The team visited the ward and inquired with the family members to find,Pavan Shetty had blocked about seven beds in the name of a few patients who were discharged a week ago and had admitted two persons from Kolar and Tumkur without verification and had allotted those beds to them with different index names.   

The BU code is generated only for residents of Bengaluru and the SAST bed is also allotted using the BU code which he had manipulated.

During the probe the inquiry team also found that the hospital has reportedly charged Rs.7,000 for two vials of Remdesivir from the patient.

There was also an allegation that the hospital did not admit a patient,which is being probed.

Alok Kumar ADGP KSRP,after his surprise visit to Manipal hospital as he said that it is his one more round of visit to the Manipal hospital during Inspecting we found suspicious activities in the hospital in bed allotment.

Based on which we deployed a team to investigate all the admissions and discharges at the hospital and verify with the patients/family members.

The team found there was a dubious admission and bed blocking done by the staff based on which the team filed a complaint against the Arogya Mitra staff and unearthed the racket he said.

He even said,Roles of other concerned too under scanner.Trying our best to have patient friendly  Bed management system in our zone he added.

The Jeeevanbhimanagar police have registered a case against the Arogya Mitra staff charging him under Disaster Management Act and also under section 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant.)and section 408 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) against him. The police have taken him into custody for further investigations.

Husna Rizwan M.D Nasheman

The first batch of 83 women soldiers was inducted into the Indian Army’s military police by the Corps of Military Police Centre and School  at Dronacharya Parade Ground in Bengaluru on Saturday May 8.

The attestation parade was a low-key event during which Covid protocol was strictly adhered to.

Among the three services, the army is the only one to induct women as non-commissioned officers,”the Army said in a statement.

The commandant reviewed the parade, complimented the newly attested women soldiers for their impeccable drill.

The Commandant of the CMP Centre and School, Brigadier C.Dayalan,complimented the women soldiers for their impeccable drill and congratulated them on their successful completion of the intense 61 weeks of training on aspects related to Basic Military training.

Provost training to include all forms of policing duties and management of prisoners of war, ceremonial duties and skill development to include driving and maintenance of all vehicles and signal communications. 

While extolling the virtues of dedication to duty, righteousness and selfless service to the nation, he expressed confidence that the training imparted to them and the standards achieved would hold them at par with their male counterparts and help them prove to be a force multiplier at their new units located across varied terrain and operational conditions in the country. 

The government had approved the induction of women in military police in January 2019,and plans to have 1700 women soldiers by 2036,in batches of 100 recruits per year.

The army plans to induct 800 women into the military police with a yearly intake of 52 women who will serve as personnel below officer rank.

Pramesh Jain

The city police on Saturday held a trial run for the upcoming complete lock down and cracked whip on the errant motorists moving around during the lock down without valid reasons .

The police also seized as many as 3000 vehicles and sealed 24 shops and booked them under Disaster Management Act,but also canned the uncouth motorists who tried to reason with the police.

Among the total 3,000 vehicles the city police seized 2723 bikes while the rest of them are rickshaws and cars,a senior police officer,said .

On Saturday there was slow moving traffic amid lockdown there was traffic jam near KR Circle, Corporation circle,Townhall so seeing the heavy traffic Commissioner of police Kamal Pant went on surprise city rounds to monitor the enforcement.

Kamal Pant started his surprise check from his office first he visited near BRV Junction in Shivajinagar limits,then to Hudson circle,KR Circle,Townhall junction,City market circle.

He himself with DCPs,as,Kuldeep Kumar Jain R,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,with ACPs,as,AB Sudhakar,P Ravi,PI, Kumaraswamy,and other staff were seen intensifying their vehicle checking in the presence of Commissioner of police.

Commissioner of police Kamal Pant was also seen checking the vehicles near BRV Junction and City Market junction and he led the enforcement to monitor the situation of traffic.

After inspecting the areas Kamal Pant addressing media said,Except emergency situation like vaccination and travelling, no one is allowed outside on the road during Lockdown, period,unless they have valid reasons,Mr.Pant said.

He said that the Saturday show is just a trail run and from Monday,the police are going to arrest people who are found on the road,he added . 

The fresh guidelines issued keeping the safety of people in mind and any kind of violations will not be considering leniently,He added.

Mr.Pant later went around the city and led the enforcement at many areas.He stopped a couple passing by on the scooter and asked them why are they outside.He advise them to return home and stay at home with the family and warned to take action if they found moving again.

We are going to contain people coming to hotels and restaurants to get parcels.This would add more to the traffic and people start moving out.

Those who want to get parcel should come by walk and should not take vehicle outside,he said .

As soon as the message of Commissioner surprise inspection flashed,the jurisdictional police stepped up the security and barricaded the junctions, by lanes and flyovers.

Many motorists were caught by surprise as the police canned them and seized their vehicles. within few hours major roads across the city wore deserted look.

Many media personnel complained that their drivers are also detained by the police while they were returning home after dropping the journos  home . 

Parveen Sood, Director General and Inspector general of police tweeted by saying, Please take lockdown seriously in the overall interest of everyone’s safety…. or be ready to get your vehicle seized for next two weeks.Choice is yours.

He even warned violators Don’t argue endlessly with policemen. You may give 100 excuses for being on road; we give only one reason for staying home ie your safety. If we had choice we would also stay indoors and not lose 120 of our policemen to COVID while enforcing lockdown on roads!! DG IGP Praveen Sood tweeted.

Pramesh Jain

The North Division police of Mahalakshmi layout police and Srirampura police have arrested five persons including manager of a private bank red handed while selling Remdesivir in black .

The Mahalakshmi layout police inspector and team arrested four persons including the bank manager identified as,Shivakumar,32 is resident of RR Nagar and manager with Jana bank,and his associates are,Darshan,29,from Kengeri,medical representative,Girish,30,from Kengeri,a lab technician and Nagesh,43,from Mallathahalli and Vegetable vendor by profession.

Srirampura police and team arrested,Nayaz Ahmed,30, resident of Chamarajapete and a delivery boy by profession.

Dharmendra Kumar Meena,DCP, North Division said based on credible information about the Black marketing of Remdesivir is going on in Mahalakshmi layout police station limits and Srirampura police station limits.

Acting on the tip off,Mahalakshmi layout police inspector,Kantharaju HM and his crime team swung into action on Friday evening at around 6.45 pm,the police team raided a bus stop near a private hospital and arrested Shivakumar and three of his associates while waiting for the customer to deliver the vials.

The police have seized two mobile phones and cash Rs 6,000 from them.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and Inquiries revealed that the accused Nagesh had purchase the Remdesivir injection for the treatment of his father.

After his father died of injection,he along with his friends tried to sell the remaining vials to make profit.The police seized three vials from them.

The police have taken the accused into custody and investigating to ascertain their claims.

Similarly,the  Srirampura police on Friday caught 30 year old delivery boy red handed at Bandireddy circle and recovered two vials from him.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime,and it was found that the accused had created a prescription to purchase Remdesivir from the pharmacy where he was working in the name of his brother and later selling in the black for Rs 40,000 per each vial.

A case has been registered against all the accused in the concerned police station and further investigation is on.

Finally DG&IGP,Praveen Sood,tweeted and said,Good work done to punish pandemic profiteering.Pandemic Profiteering of medicines like remdesivir, etc will be dealt with severely. You can also pass such information to 112.

He even appreciated,Bengaluru City police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee DCP North, Dharmendra Kumar Meena,ACP Malleswaram Sub-Division,KS Venkatesh Naidu,PIs,Kantharaju HM,Sanjeev Gowda HB,PSIs,as,Vinayak and Vinod Nayak and other crime staff who has successfully nabbed five persons and seized 5 vials of Remdesivir from them and for the commendable job done by the team a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

Officials of the Drug Control department and cottonpet police on Friday caught the owner of a private hospital,manager and pharmacist for selling the Remdesivir injections in black.

The accused has been identified as,DR.Anupama,Doddamma Gowdappagol,and Mohan Kumar TS,

Senior officer told media persons,the inspector of the state intelligence unit of the drug control department,Harish received a tip off that a Srinivasa hospital pharma is indulged in selling Remdesivir antiviral drug for exorbitant rates and are illegally hoarding Remdec Remdesivir vials.

Based on the information Harish VR Drug Inspector,visited the pharma as Prospective customer to purchase,Remdec Remdesivir injection and purchased three Remdec (Remdesivir),vials by paying Rs.5750 each after receiving it the team caught them red handed.

After raiding the place based on complaint filed by Drug Inspector,Harish VR,We have charged DR. Anupama,owner of Srinivasa hospital and pharma situated on park road,Chikkapete, Doddamma Gowdappagol,pharmacist and Mohan Kumar,manager of the hospital,charging them under drug control act and cheating .

The trio was caught red handed when Mr.Harish based on a tip-off visited the pharma as a customer and purchased three vials of Remdec ( Remdesivir ) injections for Rs 5750 for each vial .

The maximum selling price of each vial is Rs 899 fixed by the government but the accused were selling in black to make a huge margin of profit, Mr.Harish said in his complaint.

A case has been registered in cottonpet police station under Drug control Act and cheating against the hospital owner and others and further investigation is on.

Bengaluru: According to a report by Prajavani, new information has surfaced concerning the harassment and targeting of the 17 Muslim BBMP war room employees, who were singled out by the BJP MP Tejasvi Surya and his party’s MLAs. An MLA from the party allegedly pressured the BBMP officials to suspend the 17 employees in question and warned them of trouble in case of non-compliance, even before the ambush, it is learned.

A senior official, who insisted on being anonymous has released a statement revealing that “An MLA and his supporters pressured us and told us to suspend all the Muslim employees from the War room on May 1st itself”, he said. 

“There are no complaints on these 17 Muslim employees, and they have done nothing wrong. We said that we cannot suspend them from work without any reason. After that, an officer in the lower department was also pressured by them. They had brought a letter they wrote in this regard. But, I rejected it”, the senior level officer, who wished to remain anonymous told Prajavani.

“The MLA had warned and said that ‘if you do not suspend the Muslim employees, you will face trouble’. Because we did not listen to them, they ambushed us on May 4th”, the anonymous official informed. “MLAs had left the individuals that they chose at the Bommanahalli region’s war room. They were overlooking the In-charge’s work including that of operations related to the allotment of beds. In this regard, the MLA wanted to remove the 17 individuals in question and replace them with his people, that was his intention”, the Prajavani report citing the anonymous official relayed.

Appointed after April 20: “The South zone War room had only 47 employees to do the work. On April 15th, we notified that we required more staff and requested the fulfillment of the same. Including these 17 Muslim employees, around 160 individuals were appointed on April 20th. Presently, 207 employees were working in that location”, informed an official working at the Crystal Agency, which helped fulfill the employee requirement of the South Zone war room. 

“The agency that fulfilled the Bommanahalli war room’s staff requirements is another organization. We have fulfilled the staff requirements for the South Zone war room”, the official from the agency was quoted saying in the report published by Prajavani.

“After April 20th, for few days, the newly appointed staff received training. They began work after that. The accusations that claim that these 17 employees were involved in the bed-blocking case are a lie. The allotment of beds was being overseen by senior officers and doctors. The employees that we provided, do not have any authority to do so”, Prajavani’s report elaborated on the agency officer’s statement. 

BENGALURU: Karnataka recorded the highest single-day Covid deaths since the onset of the pandemic at 592. Among them, 346 deaths were from Bengaluru Urban. The total number of Covid deaths in the State is now 17,804 and the case fatality ratio for the day was 1.21 per cent. Karnataka, which is in second position after Maharashtra in total cases, added 48,781 new cases, taking the tally to 1,83,885. The total active cases are now 5,36,641, up from 5,17,075 the previous day.

The state’s positivity rate for the day was 30.69 per cent. On a bright note, the State hit the highest discharges in a day at 28,623, an increase from 18,943 on Thursday. The total discharges are now 12,84,420. Recovery ratio of the state is 69.84 per cent, down from 71.04 per cent on Thursday.

Bengaluru Urban continues to record a high number of cases among districts. It reported 21,376 new cases, taking the tally to 9,08,462. It was 8,87,086 the previous day.

The city’s discharges were 11,784 and the total was 5,58,992 with 3,41,978 active cases. Bengaluru’s mortality rate had been dropping since April 13 from a CFR of 0.99 per cent to 0.88 per cent on April 25. On May 6, it was 0.80 per cent. But it saw a slight increase after recording 346 deaths to 0.82 per cent. Dr Jagadish Hiremath, CEO, Ace Suhas Hospital, said, “This is certainly worrying. Till now we were running short of oxygen, now shortage of ventilators is another problem we have to deal with. As cases are going up alarmingly, many hospitals are shutting down due to shortage of oxygen. ”

The health officer pouring out his struggle, with the patient’s attendant, to arrange a ventilator bed for his wife has gone viral on social media. 

MYSURU: At a time when thousands are scrambling to find beds and save the lives of their family members, the magnitude of the crisis can be gauged from the fact that even those in positions of authority seem helpless, even when it comes to their own family members.

An audio clip of Mysuru District Health Officer (DHO) T Amarnath, pleading his inability to arrange a bed for a patient, has called into question the system of bed management in the district. The health officer pouring out his struggle, with the patient’s attendant, to arrange a ventilator bed for his wife has gone viral on social media. 

“I was not able to get a ventilator bed for my wife. Then, how can I help you? I am completely lost and it is out of my hands,” Amarnath can be heard telling a man who had called seeking help to get a ventilator bed for a critically ill patient admitted at ESI Hospital here.

Enraged by the DHO’s reply, the patient’s attendant questioned Amarnath why he was continuing in the position when he couldn’t help people. “My situation is such. It is out of my hands. I am ready to face action or even go home if action is taken,” he can be heard saying. 

The audio clip, leaked on social media platforms, reveals the helplessness of health officials who are struggling just like commoners at a time with the second wave of the pandemic has wreaked havoc in the state.