Pramesh Jain

The South Division police of Kumaraswamy Layout police arrested a gang of three habitual  offenders and recovered 921 grams of gold valuables worth Rs 44.5 lakh from them.

The accused has been identified as,Yogesh alias Abhi alias Chapathi,24,resident of Chennammanakere achukkattu,Yeshwanth,22 of Electronic City and Mohan Kumar,29,of Banashankari.

DCP South,Harish Pandey told reporters,as on 17th April our Kumaraswamy layout police inspector Shivakumar received a reliable information from their source that three persons are moving suspiciously in front of jewelery shop near SBI ATM near Airtel office.

As soon as the information was received Inspector and team rushed to the spot and during questioning they dint give correct information and as the team got suspicious on the trio they checked their pockets and found gold ornaments in their possession.

The team arrested them while they were trying to sell the gold at a jewelry shop in KS Layout during lockdown.

The accused confessed that they had stolen the valuables in three different cases reported in the south division as in Chennammanakere achukkattu police station limits a Jewellery shop was burgled and team were formed to nab the gang.

A detailed investigation by the team has revealed that this is the same gang who burgled the jewellery shop and based on their statement the team recovered 921 grams of gold ornaments worth Rs.44.5 lakhs from them.

The accused are habitual offenders who met in the prison two years ago and ganged up.After coming out of prison they began to break into the locked houses and steal valuables.

The trio have been remanded to judicial custody while the police would return the valuables to the owners after obtaining permission from the court.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP South,Harish Pandey,ACP, Subramanyapura Sub-Division,TM Shivakumar,PI,P Shivakumar,PSIs,as,Subramani K,Nagesh HM,and crime staff as, Ravikumar,Siddaih,Kempegowda,Dinesh BV,Eshwarappa,Anekanth Bilagi,Sathish,Smt.Manjula,Smt.Jyothi and other staff has been appreciated for the exemplary work done by them in nabbing the notorious habitual HBT offenders and for the commendable job done by the team a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

The New Indian Express on Saturday had reported about the scarcity of oxygen supply at hospitals across the district and warned about a possible tragedy in the near future if not addressed.

CHAMARAJANAGAR: Twenty-two persons who were undergoing treatment for COVID-19 succumbed  due to shortage of oxygen supply here on Sunday night. 

The New Indian Express on Saturday had reported about the scarcity of oxygen supply at hospitals across the district and warned about a possible tragedy in the near future if not addressed.

All the 22 persons were either on ventilator support or oxygenated beds and shortage of oxygen led to their deaths, their family members alleged. 

Elected representatives point at the lack of coordination between the administrations of Mysuru and Chamarajanagar that resulted in the tragedy. 

Chamarajanagar district commissioner MR Ravi had earlier claimed that there is no shortage of oxygen further stating that most of the deceased were on ventilator support and others had co-morbidities that led to the deaths.

However, he did accept that the deaths were due to oxygen shortage and the incident has shaken the COVID patients as many of them are hesitant to get admitted to district hospitals. 

However, in a late light development on Sunday, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha intervened to address the issue and provided 50 cylinders from Mysuru after learning that the current stock will get exhausted 2 am.

Former Chamarajangar MP R Dhruvanarayan has demanded a judicial probe in this incident.

BENGALURU: The BJP managed to retain the Belgaum Lok Sabha seat and bag the Basavakalyan Assembly constituency while the Congress retained the Maski Assembly seat in the April 17 bypolls, the results of which were declared on Sunday.

Although Mangala was leading during the early rounds, Congress’ Satish Jarkiholi caught on and was leading by about 10,000 votes during the later rounds, but Mangala finally scraped through, by securing 4,36,868 votes.

10,631 NOTA votes in Belagavi seat

Interestingly, Independent candidate Shubham Vikram Shelke, who was backed by the Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES), managed to garner 1.16 lakh votes. A total of 10,631 NOTA votes were also polled. In Maski Assembly seat in Raichur district, it was turncoat versus turncoat. The BJP candidate Prathapgouda Patil, who was previously with the Congress and switched over to BJP, lost to Basanagouda Turvihal by about 20,000 votes.

Turvihal himself had switched to Congress from BJP just before the polls were announced. He secured 86,337 votes and defeated Prathapagouda Patil by a huge margin of over 30,000 votes. The JDS had not put up a candidate here. Patil’s resignation had necessitated the bypoll. The BJP’s candidate for the Basavakalyan Assembly segment, Sharanu Salgar, won against Mala Narayana Rao, wife of deceased Congress MLA Narayana Rao, in a triangular fight where the JDS had fielded Syed Yasrab Ali Qadri. Salgar polled 71,012 votes while his nearest rival polled 50,383 votes. Narayan Rao too died last year due to Covid-19, leaving the Assembly segment vacant.

Pramesh Jain

The Malleshwaram police registered a case under Disaster management act against one more private hospital for denying beds to the covid patients.

Senior officer,said,Based on a complaint by Suresh Rudrappa,health officer BBMP, Malleswaram,the police registered FIR against Vegas hospital situated on Mahakavi Kuvempu road in Malleswaram on Thursday.

Mr Rudrappa said that as per the guidelines by BBMP,hospitals are supposed to reserve 50 per cent of their beds to treat Covid patients referred by BBMP.

The hospital denied admitting the patients on two days between April  27 and 28 citing non availability of beds.

An ispections by the health officials found that the hospital management is lying and giving wrong information. 

This amount to serious lapses on the part of the hospitla during the time of crisis and hence liable to be prosecuted under DMA act,Mr.Rudrappa said he added.

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The Jayanagar police on Thursday arrested a housekeeping contractor from West Bengal for cheating people promising ICU beds in hospitals.

The accused has been identified as,Manish Sarkar,residing in Malleswaram area.

Senior officer, told media persons,that a complainant by name Stephen Raj filed a cheating complaint against Manish Sarkar he stated that the accused circulated his contact number on whatsapp groups promising to get the beds but after receiving money he has escaped.

It is alleged that Desperate people contacted him for beds following which Sarkar had taken money and escaped.

After receiving the complaint Jayanagar police inspector and his staff swung into action and based on the information and on technical inputs they picked him up for questioning.

During the investigation the accused confessed the crime and it is revealed that by using similar modus operandi,he had taken money from Stephan Raj,resident of Jayanagar who was looking for the beds for his mother.

Sarkar forced him to pay Rs.20,000,on the pretext of charges and commission and escaped on April 23.

However Stephan Raj’s mother failed to get to bed and succumbed the next day while his father who was also suffering  died on April 25.

After performing their late rites,Stephan Raj approached the police seeking action against Sarkar on Wednesday .

Based on the complaint,the police arrested Sarkar charging him under extortion and cheating.The police are investigating further to ascertain whether the accused had cheated others.

Meanwhile we appeal to citizens not to get lured by such claims.The BBMP will not charge money  and allotment of beds depends on the condition of the patient,he said.

A case under extortion and cheating has been registered against the accused and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP South,Harish Pandey,ACP, Jayanagar,Sub-Division,Shanthamallappa,PI, Sudharshan HV,and crime staff for the commendable job done by them and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Pramesh Jain

As part of the lock down enforcement the city police on Saturday seized as many as 843 vehicles which were moving around the city without valid reasons.Over all till today 7577 vehicles has been seized Bengaluru city police.

According to an official release 784 are two wheelers,35 three wheelers and 24 four wheelers.

Over all vehicles seized in 8 Divisions are,7577 vehicles in which,6901 are two wheeler,333 are three wheeler,343 are four wheelers.The police have also booked 48 cases against shops and commercial establishments under Disaster management act for violating the lockdown guidelines .

Meanwhile the cab drivers accused high handedness of police for seizing their vehicles and harassing them.

The cab drivers association alleged that while returning from the airport and dropping the passenger the police not only seized the cab but also assaulted the driver who questioned the police high handedness .

The association said that they are working on emergency situation during the crisis and warned to stage strong protests if the police alleged brutality continues says association head.

Meanwhile as vehicles were huge yesterday Commissioner of Police,Kamal Pant personally visited KR circle and Mysuru Bank Circle to monitor the situation and as he along with DCP MN Anucheth,ACP, Nazma Farooq,PI,Deepak was seen checking the vehicles and those vehicles which were plying without any valid reasons were seized.

Meanwhile Bengaluru city police of all divisions have booked 1,06,626 cases against people not wearing mask and collected 24288262.4 rupees from 1st April to 30th April.

9168 shops and commercial establishments were booked for violating lockdown guidelines in the Bengaluru Police commissionerate and collected 2097183.4 Rupees from violators.

Praveen Sood,DG & IGP, Karnataka State Police took to Twitter to counsel and warn people not to violate restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Let’s take the lockdown seriously. It’s in our own interest and possibly a last resort. More than 1,000 vehicles have been seized by police for loitering on flimsy grounds. I am sure you do not want to return home without your vehicle. Cooperate with police, stay home and break the chain,” he tweeted on Friday.

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The Southeast Division police of Electronic city police on Wednesday arrested a 39 year old inter state peddler from Andhra Pradesh red handed and recovered 104 kilograms of Marijuana worth Rs 91.3 lakh.

The accused has been identified as, Kallapatti Nagendra from Nalluru in Andhra Pradesh

Senior officer,told media persons,that a credible information about the huge quantity drugs will be entering to the city from inter-state and the peddler will pass through D Mart in a car.

Based on information Electronic city police inspector informed his seniors as ACP,Pawan,and DCP, Southeast,Srinath Mahadev Joshi about the information the seniors instructed Electronic city police inspector Anil Kumar HD to catch the peddler with all necessary actions.

Based on the senior officers guidance Inspector and his team rushed to the spot and surrounded the area when the car entered near D Mart of Electronic City our Inspector flagged the car and while intercepting the team found huge quantity of drugs in the car based on which the team caught him red handed for the possession of drugs.

For further questioning the team took him to police station for inquiry during investigation the accused confessed the crime.Nagendra told the police that he sourced the drugs from Chintapalli forest area in Vizag and smuggled the drugs in a car into the city.

He told the police that he wanted to sell the drugs during lockdown since he can charge more money and become rich in short time by Charging more money to his clients.

After arresting him the team grilled him and he spilled the beans and based on his statement the team has seized 104kg of Marijuana drugs worth Rs.91.3 lakh from his possession.

The accused has been booked under NDPS act and taken him into custody to verify his peddling network and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant, has appreciated Addl CP East,S Murugan DCP Southeast,Srinath Mahadev Joshi,ACP Pawan N,PI Anil Kumar HD,PSI,Mallesh Mallayanavar,and crime staff as,Shivchandrappa, Nagesh,Raghu,Nagaraj and Basangouda has been appreciated for nabbing the inter-state drug peddler and recovering 104 kg Marijuana worth Rs.91.3 lakhs from the peddler and for the commendable job done by the team a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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A 26-year-old auto rickshaw driver ended life by jumping from the fourth floor of the victoria hospital ward on Wednesday where he was being treated for covid infection.

The deceased has been identified as Kumar,26,

According to the police Kumar was admitted to the hospital for the few days ago and since then he was under depression.

However the family members raised doubt about the death stating that Kumar was assured by the doctors he was cured and would be shifted to the general ward soon.

DCP South,Harish Pandey and VV Puram police visited the spot and conducted spot inspection.

Based on the complaint the police have taken up a case of unnatural death and are awaiting a post mortem report to ascertain the cause of death.

This is the second case of suicide related to covid infection as on Saturday 61-year-old Ramanna ended life by hanigng at the room of a private hospital in Vijayanagar where he was admitted for treatment .

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Bengaluru CCB sleuths of special inquiry squad wing has busted a fake reverse transcription (RT), the polymerase chain reaction (PCR),RT-PCR racket and arrested four persons including two lab technician and recovered 5 fake RT-PCR negative certificate and mobile phones.

The accused has been identified as,Mukesh Singh,25 of Rajasthan,and Nagaraj,39 of Bengaluru,Bhagya and Anil kumar both lab technician.

Senior officer,told media persons,we received a credible information about the fake RT-PCR negative certificates are being given to people who wants negative RT-PCR reports to travel Maharashtra,West Bengal and many other places where RT-PCR negative certificate is compulsory.

Our team got a credible inputs that person near Sarjapur road in Varthur police station limits are running this racket and issuing certificate for Rs.900.

Based on the information team led by ACP, Hanumantharaya and team swung into action the team formed a team of decoy and approached the duo as travellers.

Two police officials posing as travellers approached the duo and sought RT-PCR negative reports which enables people to travel anywhere.

The duo took our officials as decoys Aadhar card and details for RT-PCR negative report the duo dint collect the swab of both of our decoy and asked to come next day to collect the report.

Our team on the next day approached them to collect report and the duo charged Rs.700 for each report.

When the report was received by our decoy after receiving the report we conducted a raid on his office near Sarjapur road and recovered 5 Fake Certificates and mobile phones used to commit the crime.

During interrogation the duo accused confessed the crime and a detailed investigation led our team to arrest two more accused based on their statement the team arrested Bhagya and Anil Kumar a lab technicians with those duo help as lab technician the prime accused is Mukesh Singh in this racket.

The duo’s modus operandi was simple as they used to collect Aadhaar cards and never collected swab samples to issue these certificates.

The police team got to know that the duo was running this racket for quite some time and charged Rs 700 per certificate.

 The police has registered a case and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated Joint CP Crime,Sandeep Patil,DCP Crime-1,KP Ravikumar,ACP, Hanumantharaya N,and other staff who are the part of the busting the fake RT-PCR negative certificate racket and for the exemplary work done by them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.