Pramesh Jain

Trio including woman held for hacking Ex Karnataka DGPs E-mail account to cheat his friends:

The southeast Divisions CEN police on Wednesday arrested a gang of three including woman from Nagaland who hacked the email account of Former DGP Shankar Bidari and made away with Rs 25,000 by hacking his email account and cheated his friend to transfer the fund online.

The accused has been identified as,Thia Rit Samong,31,Seropa Sesai,27,Ester Konyak,28, all  native of Nagaland .

The accused had hacked the email account of Mr.Bidari on 26th February and sent SOS mail to all his contacts seeking emergency help of Rs 25,000.

The accused had also mentioned the bank account details where the money to be transferred.The police managed to crack the case only through the bank account.

Senior officer told media persons,Based on the complaint filed by Shankar Mahadevan Bidari,stating that his email account has been hacked by some unknown person and with this they have cheated his friend by asking him to send Rs.25,000 as he is in some emergency requirement.

Based on the complaint a special team was formed by DCP Southeast Srinath Mahadev Joshi,under the leadership of PI,Rajesh and his team swung into action.

CEN police station staff pressed into action the team collected all the information from the Gmail team and IP address and the hackers even sent details of bank account to Ex DGP friend.

The team visited the bank and collected all the information and based on the technical evidence with information from the bank the cyber crime police track down the accused through  bank account,which the accused used to get the money transferred.

The team nabbed the trio and during investigation the accused confessed the crime and it was revealed that the trio are part of five members gang who would dupe gullible people online and cheat them of their money.

A detailed investigation by the team to find out about their role the accused spilled the beans and said Ester was assigned by the gang to collect the bank details and debit cards from the people from her native offering commission. These bank details are then used in the cyber frauds.

The mastermind of the scam is Rubika, a beautician by profession,who has befriended Peter and James on social media and the trio started hacking email accounts of people .

Ester Konyak@Rubika is a beautician by profession and was working in the city for the last four years and stayed in a rented house in Horamavu.

After their arrest the team conducted a detailed investigation and based on their statement the team has recovered details of 60 bank accounts,and seized debit cards,23 Pancards, aadhar cards of different people,four mobile phones and cash of Rs.2 lakh from the account.

It was even revealed that the trio used to lure employed and poor people offering money and take their IDs and rental agreements to open bank accounts,which they also used for scam.

The CEN police have taken all the accused into custody to ascertain their criminal background and massive manhunt is on to nab James and Peter who are part of the gang he added.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East S Murugan DCP Southeast Srinath Mahadev Joshi,PI,L Y Rajesh,WPSI,Ms.LakshmiMandigeri,ASI, Srinivas Babu,and staff as,Basappa,Asthak Sab,and Ms.Jyothi has been appreciated for the commendable job done by them and recovered various bank debit cards,Aadhar card and pancards from them and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Bengaluru On international women’s day, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurapps on Monday announced a proposal to provide six-months child care leave to women employees of the Government.

He also announced a grant of Rs 37,188 crore for women oriented programmes.

Presenting the 2021-22 budget in the Legislative Assembly, he proposed upgradation of Anganwadis situated in Bengaluru and other cities into creches for the benefit of urban working women.

Action would be taken to open creches in two major government offices in each district centre, the Chief Minister said, announcing a slew of initiatives benefiting women.

“Women employees of the state government will be given a total of six months child care leave along with maternity leave which is already in existence. This will be a supplementary step towards the welfare of women who are a very important part of the administrative machinery,” he said.

Yediyurappa announced loan facility of up to Rs two crore at a subsidised rate of four per cent through Woman Development Board/Karnataka State Finance Corporation to women entrepreneurs in the service sector.

The government also announced support through Panchayat Raj institutions for the establishment of 6,000 micro enterprises for rural women self-help groups under ‘Sanjeevini’; to benefit 60,000 women.

Technical support to small enterprises of women was announced by the government which also proposed encouragement to 25,000 women through 2,260 micro enterprises.

The government also proposed to provide market to the products manufactured by women self-help groups and women entrepreneurs, organisation of annual fares at divisional level and implementation of e-market facility.

Yediyurappa announced commencement of ‘Vanitha Sangathi’ programme for providing BMTC (Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation) bus pass at concessional rate to women labourers of garment sector in Bengaluru at an expenditure of Rs 30 crore.

It also proposed re-examination of various laws and rules for creation of conducive environment for women taking up employment.

Action was also proposed to incorporate gender budget and child budget in the Panchayat Raj system.

Yediyurappa also announced fixing of 7,500 cameras in public places of Bengaluru city under safe city project; action to intensify night beats through technology based e- beat system.

It also proposed establishment of centre of excellence in collaboration with NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences) and National Law School for giving assistance and guidance to women subjected to atrocity.

For the women who have obtained licence from Agricultural Produce Market Committee, 10 per cent reservation was proposed in the allotment of site, godown, shop, shop-cum-godowns in the premises.

The government proposed to support women entrepreneurs by implementation of the ‘Elevate Women Entrepreneurship’ programme at an expenditure of Rs five crore.

Implementation of a self-help group policy to strengthen self-help groups and their federation of the State was also announced along with action to bring all the self-help groups under the livelihood mission.

Commencement of ‘Women Protection and Empowerment Mission’ was proposed under the direct supervision of the Chief Minister.

Ramesh Jarkiholi sex scandal Case- Activist Dinesh Kallahalli withdraws complaint against BJP MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi caught in sex tape controversy:

In sudden spin to the alleged sex scandal case involving Ramesh Jharkiholi which later led him to resign,social activist Dinesh Kallahalli who is complainant in the case filed a petition seeking withdrawal of the case citing allegations levelled against him.

A requestion was filed by advocate representing mr.Dinesh on Sunday Following which the cubbon park police have asked Dinesh Kallahalli to appear in person to substantiate his claim.

Dinesh Kallahalli told reporters,that he is withdrawing  the complaint as he was pained by allegations of a Rs.5 crore deal,levelled by JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy.

However,Mr.Dinesh kallahalli hinted that he would challenge allegation levelled against him legally to come out clean.

He also said that being a social activist and as a responsible citizen he would persue the case legally to get justice for the woman who have been cheated and harassed.

Meanwhile sources says the cops who are probing the case had intensified the probe and after investigating in all angles with technical inputs and outputs the team tracked the women’s house in Bengaluru RT Nagar and even traced the women’s relatives in her native a special team visited them and it is alleged with their help the team got to know who is the women and team spoke to the women who is at undisclosed location and it is alleged that the women refused to give any statement says sources.

Meanwhile,The Probe into the sex scandal which led water resource minister Ramesh Jharkiholi to resign,will continue despite petition was filed by the complainant in the case seeking withdrawal.

A senior police officer who is part of the probe said that Dinesh Kallahalli,activist and complainant in the case will be asked to appear before the Investigating officer and record his statement to ascertain the reason behind his decision.

There could be many reasons including he has been pressurised or blackmailed by someone. There are also possibility that he was trying to misuse the police for his personal use.All this aspects will be ascertained before taking a decision,he said.

The case is still being treated as NCR and probe is on.Though it is the discretion of the IO, Investigation officer to decide on the fate of the case at the station level.

However the police decided to continue the probe to ascertain reason behind it and are trying to record the statement of women who has crucial role to play in the case.

Based on her statement,the future plan course of the case will be decided to take it to a logical end, a police officer,said.

Earlier Dinesh Kallahalli through his advocate, Kumar Patil, submitted petition to cubbon park police requesting to withdraw the case.

Dinesh in his five page petition said that he is pained by the accusation of former CM Kumaraswamy who alleged that it was a five crore deal.

I was being targetting unnecessarily for performing my duties.It is like shoot the message attitude taken by everyone.

This baseless allegations are not only casting aspersions on my image but also my relatives and friends to are doubting me.

I have done my job and filed complaint as responsible citizen.Now its up to the police to decide.

This does not mean that i have stepped back, i’ll challenge the allegation levelled against me legally and ensure that the victim will get justice, he said.

It is a conspiracy to tarnish family, BJP’ – Balachandra Jarkiholi:

Terming the CD that purportedly had intimate scenes of the former Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi as fake that was created to defame the family and finish off its political career, KMF chairman and his brother Balachandra Jarkiholi on Sunday sought a CBI inquiry into the CD episode since the contents were uploaded in Russia.

Mr.Balachandra Jarkiholi told presspersons that, several people and unknown hands were behind the creation of the CD,which he described as “fake”.

“We now have information that as many as 17 servers were booked in Russia to upload the video on YouTube,three hours prior to Dinesh Kallahalli approaching the police.

Between Rs.10 Crore and Rs.15 Crore has been spent to book the servers to bring disrepute to the family and the BJP,he added.

Further, he said,We also have come to know that the woman in the CD has been promised Rs.50 lakh and a job in Dubai.I also request you not to call her a victim because there is a conspiracy behind this.

While Mr.Balachandra was defending his brother, he also referred the whole event as being a honeytrap.

Asked how this could be a honeytrap when he is calling the CD fake,he maintained that he was referring to two to four teams that were also planning to honeytrap.There is a team working for honeytrap in the State.

“We will approach the Bengaluru Police Commissioner to send the CD to a lab to ascertain its genuineness.

We will also seek investigation by an agency that will help bring out truth,he told presspersons.

When asked why Mr.Ramesh Jarkiholi was not coming forward to complain to the police,Mr. Balachandra Jarkiholi said he was also appealing to his brother either to come forward to complain to the police or authorise someone to pursue the case.

Mr.Balachandra Jarkiholi said,Dinesh Kallahalli could have been misguided and he may not have received full information.He may have been used as well.We will consult an advocate to decide future course of action.

When asked if the Jarkiholis had turned soft towards Mr.Kallahalli or had met him before Sunday,Mr.Balachandra Jarkiholi said that no one met him nor they were going soft.When his views were sought on legal action against Mr.Kallahalli, he said they would take a decision after consulting lawyers.

If it is proved that Ramesh Jarkiholi is wrong I will advise him to apologise to the people and take political retirement. If he has not done anything wrong those behind it (CD and allegations) should be sent to jail.

Dinesh Kallahalli, a social activist on Tuesday lodged a police complaint against Mr Ramesh alleging sexual harassment to a ”job aspirant” and threatening her and family of dire consequences.

Bengaluru: Six Karnataka ministers have moved a Bangaluru court here seeking to restrain media organisations from publishing or airing any “defamatory or unauthenticated” material against them.

 The six ministers of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa-led government who moved the court Friday include Labour Minister Shivaram Hebbar, Agriculture Minister B C Patil, Cooperative Minister S T Somashekar and Health, Family Welfare and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar.

The two others are Youth Empowerment and Sports Minister K C Narayana Gowda and Urban Development Minister Bhyrathi Basavaraj.

After hearing their joint plea, the additional city civil sessions judge reserved his order which is expected to be delivered on Saturday.

 The six ministers are among the 17 MLAs who had rebelled against the Congress-JD(S) coalition government, leading to its fall in July 2019 and paving way for the BJP to come to power.

Disqualified from their respective parties Congress and JDS, the MLAs had subsequently joined the BJP, contested bypolls in December 2019 on BJP tickets and were made ministers after winning the polls.

Ramesh Jarkiholi, who recently resigned as a minister amid allegations of sexual harassment after the emergence of a sleaze CD, had also defected to the BJP along with 16 MLAs and had become a minister.

Confirming the ministers’ step of approaching the court, Family Welfare and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar, in a series of tweets, the ministers moved the court amid apprehensions of a political conspiracy being hatched to defame some “honestly working” ministers.