Pramesh Jain

A 61 year old covid patient ended his life by hanging himself to a ceiling fan at the ward room of the private hospital near Vijayanagar metro station where he was being treated in the wee hours of Saturday.

The deceased has been identified As Ramanna,61 year old.

The incident came to light when the hospital staff went to check at around 1.10 am he found the patient hanging himself to a ceiling fan.

The hospital staff alerted the police and their family members.

As soon as the incident was reported Vijayanagar police with DCP, West Dr Sanjeev M Patil who was on night rounds visited the spot and after collecting information said that the deceased son has visited the hospital and according to his complaint we will register a case.

The body shifted to Victoria hospital for post mortem while police initiated probe to ascertain cause of the death.

According to the hospital,the victim had locked up his room from inside and when the nurse went to his room to check up on him, the door was locked.

Dr S Raju,Managing Director,Vijayanagar Hospital,said,After our staff found that door was locked we forced open the door and found him hanging.

The police have started the investigation.He had recovered from the Covid-19 and was shifted from ICU to normal ward on Thursday.

After his attendees left the hospital at around 11.30 pm,he locked up and committed suicide.

The hospital will now undertake mental health counselling for patients.If any of our patients, even recovered ones are in depression, we will counsel them,” Raju told reporters.

Pramesh Jain

Bengaluru CCB officials busted Remdesivir black marketing racket and arrested seven persons including medical store staff in nexus with the nursing home and hospital staff selling Remdesivir vaccination in black market in two separate incidents on Thursday.

The CCB has carried a special drive from last one week against the blackmarketing of the drugs and seized 55 injections so far and arrested 16 accused.

Sandeep Patil Joint commissioner of police crime,told media persons,In the wake of growing complaints of black-marketing of Remdesivir injection amid the resurgence of COVID-19 cases.

We launched a massive drive and simultaneously conducted raids in five police station limits based on credible information  received from our inputs three teams swung into action and were tasked to identify such and launch a crackdown on such medicals.

we received secret information that they are black marketing Remdesivir and other life saving drugs.

The special team of police arrested four people on Thursday from Commercial street police station limits.

The four accused were identified as Hujefa and Matin working at Sonalika medicals,KP Suman Karthekeya,a medical distributor,and Prakash who was working in Venkateshwara medicals.

Another team of officials led by Basavaraj A Teli, from Organized Crime Wing, received credible inputs that a medical store situated at Kothanur dinne is illegally hoarding life saving drug as Remdesivir injunction and selling in double the price.

Based on information a special team led by Basavaraj A Teli sent Shantharaju a head constable as decoy to check at Parvathy Medical store situated at Kothanur Dinne.

Shantharaju posing as prospective customer went to the medical store seeking the injection for which the staff told him to Pay Rs. 22,000 per vial.

After confirming the lead the head constable Shantharaju decided to order more after getting suspecting of big racket he ordered for four before alerting his senior who was waiting at a distance for the confirmation to carry the raid.

As soon as the shop keeper got four injection vials the officials later raided Parvathy medical store and arrested,Prakash Choudhary,24, Vinod Choudhary,25,Abhishek M,30 who had sourced the vials from the adjacent parvathy clinic,through their contact identified as Rohini who is on run.

During Investigation it was found that the drugs had an exclusive not for sale sticker on the medicine box stated as strictly for hospital and institutional set up use only.

The Konanakunte police have registered the FIR against the accused under drug control act and taken them into custody to question them further to ascertain whether the accused had hold the drugs in blackmarket earlier.

In another incident,CCB team led by Girish Naik, received a secret information that two persons are standing in front of ST John’s hospital main and are in possession of Remdesivir life saving drugs.

Based on information the team rushed to spot and caught duo identified as, Shivashakthi,24,and Ramdas,25 red handed in front of ST John’s hospital main gate while they were trying to sell Remdesivir vial to the people . 

During investigation the duo told the police that they have sourced the drugs from their contact Syeda Kousar,nurse of a spoorthi hospital situated on Chocolate factory road in BTM layout.

A detailed investigation by the team it has revealed that she told the duo to sell the medicine for Rs.15,000 per vial and promised to share the profits equally .

The Koramangala police have booked trio under drug control act by and efforts are on to arrest Kousar he said.

Meanwhile till today the CCB police have booked six cases and 16 accused including two medical distributors have been arrested so far.

Currently,several teams of the crime branch have been deployed and tasked to identify and launch a crackdown on such people who are hoarding illegally life saving drug and blackmarketing it.FIR has been lodged against all the accused and further investigation is on
said by Basavaraj Bommai Home Minister.

Finally Home Minister of Karnataka, Basavaraj Bommai,DG-IGP, Praveen Sood,has appreciated,Commissioner of police,Kamal Pant,Joint CP,Crime,Sandeep Patil, KP Ravikumar,DCPs,as,BS Angadi,ACPs as, Gautham kumar,Nagaraj,PIs,as,Hazaresh Killedar,Mallesh S Bolletin,Girish Naik,and staff,as,Shantharaju and other staffs who has conducted a successful raid and arrested all the accused and a suitable reward will be given to the team for the exemplary work done by them he added.

BENGALURU: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the CD-gate case has stopped its work temporarily, amidst the spurt in Covid cases in the city. Meanwhile, former minister Ramesh Jarkiholi also did not turn up for questioning, after he had tested positive, and discharged from the hospital two weeks ago.

Another officer said two teams were formed to track down two of the suspects, Naresh Gowda and Shravan, who are still at large. Once they will be taken into custody, further investigation will be done, and the woman purportedly seen in the video has also made several allegations against the SIT before the High Court, and “we do not want to reveal anymore details over the investigation”, he added.

BENGALURU: Karnataka on Thursday recorded its highest single day addition of 26,962 new cases, with the positivity rate shooting to 15.19 per cent. This is the third consecutive day that the state has been breaking the ‘highest day’s addition’ record with 23,558 cases on April 21, 25,795 on April 22, and 26,962 on Friday.

In the number of active cases too, Karnataka stands in the third position after Maharashtra with 6,99,858 active cases and Uttar Pradesh with 2,73,653 cases.Over 190 new Covid deaths were recorded, which has been the highest single day deaths in the state, while the case fatality rate stood at 0.70 per cent. The CFR of the State is 1.1 per cent. It also recorded 8,697 discharges, taking the total to 10,46,554. The state’s recovery ratio is 82.1 per cent.

Bengaluru Urban now has the highest number of active cases in the country. On Thursday, the city recorded 16,662 new positive cases, bringing the total to 6,15,581.The number of active cases in Bengaluru stood at 1,49,624, ahead of Pune at 1,17,337 and Mumbai at 82,616.

Bengaluru Urban reported 4,727 discharges. The city’s recovery rate has been falling drastically from 89.53 per cent on April 10 to 74.78 per cent on Friday. Just 10 days ago, on April 13, the state’s positivity rate was 4.72 per cent and it climbed to 5.23 per cent on Friday. The State has also reported 46 people being infected with the UK strain and six with the South African strain.