Bengaluru, Mar 27 : Three notorious criminals sustained bullet injuries in the legs when a Police inspector fired at them in self defence near Acharya College in the city after they attacked the police party leaving three police personal injured in the attack.
Police said that Probationary Inspector Vasant Kumar, Shivaji Rao, Head Constable and Venkategowda were on night patrolling on Tuesday when they come across two people Devaraja and Chandrasekhar hatching a plan to rob passersby in lonely places of their valuables and cash.
When the team went to question the duo they started attacking them with dagger and knives. Inspector Venkategowda first fired in the air and asked them to surrender, but when the two culprits continued to attack, he fired at them and Devaraja and Chandrasekhar received bullet injuries on their legs and were apprehended. In the attack all the three police personal were injured.
All the injured, including two culprits were rushed to a hospital for treatment.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that the arrested duo were involved in 8 criminal cases including five extortion cases registered in Suladevanahalli Police Station.
A case has been registered in Suladevanahalli Police Station and further investigation was taken up.

Bengaluru, Mar 26 : CCB sleuths have nabbed a 49 year-old drug peddler and seized from him 15 kg Ganja worth about Rs 7 lakhs from him.
Police said on Tuesday that the arrested Ezra Mali was native of Ramagiri Village, Udayagiri Taluk, Gajapathi District, Orissa and he has settled in the city since last 30 years and indulged in drug peddling after procuring the banned drug from his home State and selling them to College students and Software Engineers.
Kadagodi Police have registered a case and investigating.

The Crime Branch-CID of the Tamil Nadu Police has summoned Thendral Manimaran, 27, son of DMK district secretary (Coimbatore rural) Thendral Selvaraj, to ask him about his proximity with Thirunavvukkarasu, the prime suspect in the Pollachi sexual abuse case.

Thirunavakkarasu had Manimaran’s name during the inquiry. Manimaran was asked to appear before the investigation officer in Coimbatore on March 28.

The CB-CID also summoned A Nagaraj alias Muthusamy, 28, of Pollachi in connection with the case who was the AIADMK functionary and was expelled from the party after he was called for the inquiry.

Both of them were called for questioning based on the statement of the prime accused.

In February this year, four men were arrested for allegedly blackmailing, sexually harassing and filming a 19-year-old college student in Pollachi.

The case snowballed into a major scandal after local media reported that not just one but a few hundred women were victims of an organised racket of sexual abuse, blackmail and extortion

The four men, Thirunavakkarasu, Sathish, Sabariraj and Vasanthkumar, were arrested.

Police officials said the four men sexually harassed dozens of women — over 50 of them — for over two years across Tamil Nadu. Among them were teachers and students from schools and colleges.

The officials described a chilling pattern. The men, they said, found victims on Facebook and forced them to meet in person after befriending them. They then harassed them in moving vehicles, hotels or farmhouses.

Most of the victims refused to make formal complaints, the police officials said. The police say they have retrieved videos from the gang that show sexual harassment or assault.

Agencies

Notorious Drug Peddler arrested by Suddaguntepalya police,Recovered 20-LSD Strips with 2kg Marijuana worth Rs.3.5 Lakhs. 
The Suddaguntepalya police have arrested notorious drug peddler for possession of 20 LSD Strips and 2kg of Ganja Worth Rs.3.5 lakhs.
The accused Om Prakash R.V, 40,resident of Victoria Layout in Austin Town. 
The accused was arrested acting on tip off that a person is selling drugs substances near BTM Layout 13th main to college students.
DCP,Southeast,Smt.Isha Pant,told media persons that,on 18th March the SG Palya police arrested a fake merchant of dry fruits who used to sell drugs in dates packets to college students and PG and hostel students in and around BTM Layout the police team of SG Palya arrested him when he was selling the drugs to someone we have seized 20-LSD strips and 2kg of Marijuana which is worth of almost Rs.3 Lakhs she added.
Senior officer,told media persons that a credible information was passed by reliable inputs to Suddaguntepalya police inspector Mohammad M.A,that one person is waiting to sell or deliver drugs near BTM layout 13th main in a side as soon as the information was passed Suddaguntepalya police inspector and his team swung into action and rushed immediately to the spot and zeroed in the accused and catched him red handed while he was in possession of Banned Drugs materials  while intercepting the inspector and his team found some LSD strips and Ganja as Marijuana in his possession and he was arrested and was brought to police station and during the course of investigation the accused said that he has kept the stock of drugs at his house and based on the information the team escorted him to his house in Austin and while searching the house the crime team found 20-LSD Strips with 2kg of Ganja as Marijuana was recovered from his possession and a detailed investigation by the team who grilled him he spilled the beans and revealed that he used to source the drugs from Northeast region and the accused is a MBA Graduate and holds a diploma in structural architecture and after completing his education he worked in a medical tourism firm and later he worked in an event management where he realised that drugs had a huge demand at parties and he contacted his friends in northeast region and used to source the drugs from them and he began supplying in parties and in the pretext of Fake dates Merchant he used to scout the areas in his two wheeler and he used to visit near colleges and institutions in the neighborhood and he then used to collect the numbers of students and he used to pass his Whatsapp Number to call him if they required drugs or ganja so no one should get doubt or get suspicious once he gets call from his clients he used to drop the marijuana at their places in dates packet and used to collect cash on the spot and to lead a luxurious and lavish lifestyle he used to peddle drugs he said but now as our team has done a great job who has busted the dry fruits racket which the accused turned into drug racket has been busted and his main targets were college students and Paying guest accommodation hostel students with this the team has arrested the notorious drug peddler and recovered 20-LSD Strips and 2kg Ganja as Marijuana from him and after the arrest the accused was produced before the court and court has remanded him to judicial custody and a case has been registered in Suddaguntepalya police station under NDPS Act against the accused and further investigation is on and finally,Bengaluru Police Commissioner,T.Suneel Kumar,Addl CP,East,Seemanth Kumar Singh,has appreciated,DCP,Southeast,Smt.Isha Pant,ACP,Mico-layout Sub-Division,Karibasavana Gowda,PI,M.A. Mohammad,and his crime staff who has done a tremendous job and nabbed notorious drug peddler red handed while selling it to his clients and the drive on drugs menace will be continued and those who are peddling or selling drugs to students near schools and colleges and to others will be booked under Goonda Act he added.

Bengaluru, Mar 23 : Police have nabbed 17 people, including Bar owners, Managers and 13 customers and rescued 10 girls from Punjab and Delhi during a raid conducted on illegal Live Band run in the name of Srinivasa Bar and Restaurant (Orange) in the city on Saturday.
Police said that during the raid Bar owners and Managers Santosh, Abishek, Umesh and Ramesh and 13 customers were arrested. Another Bar owner Venkatesh is absconding.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that the girls were recruited as Bar girls but forced them to dance indecently near the customers and provoked them to throw currency notes on the dancing girls.
During the raid Police have also seized 19 mobile phones, Rs 1,30,890 cash, Music systems worth about Rs 2,50,000.
Vyalikaval Police have registered a case and investigating.

Bengaluru, Mar 22 : Police have nabbed a 56 year-old man on charges of cheating promising parents that he would get seats in professional colleges.
Police said on Friday that the arrested Syed Mohammed Hussaini, who was running a BAQIR Exim Medical Seat Consultant office in the city, had collected Rs 8.5 lakhs by promising to get admission into D-Pharma Course in Srinivas Rao College of Pharmacy, Vishakapatnam in 2018 February, but he failed to get the seat nor returned the money collected.
The arrested was native of Vijayapura, Myusru and residing at Bagalur in Bangaluru Rural District.
On receiving a complaint from Syed Yestiki of Iran on December 12 last year, Sanjayanagar police formed a special team and tracked down the culprit.
Since preliminary investigation has revealed that the culprit might have cheated others also. Police have appealed to the public to file complaint with Sanjayanagar Police if they were also cheated by the arrested Mohammed Hussaini.

Bengaluru, Mar 22 (UNI) Police have arrested three teen-aged youths indulged in vehicle lifting and seized from them stolen 9 Two Wheelers worth about Rs 2.02 lakhs.
Police said on Friday that with this arrest, vehicle theft cases reported in Nandinilayout (6), Mahalakshmilayout (2) and Basaveshwara Nagar (1) were solved and vehicles stolen recovered.
The arrested, all in the age group of 19, were identified as R Chandu, Venugopal and Shankar.
Nandinilayout Police have registered a case and investigating.

By : Pramesh Jain

Input Chief of Regional TV Channel Hemanth Kashyap Arrested in Extortion Case by Sadashivanagar police .
“Bengaluru city police appeals to public to come forward and even requested the public to come forward and file a complaint if the accused has blackmailed them.”
The Sadashivanagar police,which had arrested the input chief of a regional news channel, have produced him before the court and the court has remanded him into custody for four days.
The Sadashivanagar police on Tuesday have arrested a input chief of reputed Kannada News Channel on charges of blackmailing and threatening a Padmashree awardee Doctor Raman Rao.
The accused has been identified as Hemanth Kashyap who is working with reputed Kannada News Channel and has even worked in reputed English Newspaper and Channel too.
Hemanth Kashyap, a resident of Sahakaranagar,was working with Public TV for three years.He allegedly blackmailed Dr Ramana Rao (68), a resident of RMV Extension,demanding Rs 50 lakh.
A journalist from another News channel was also blackmailing the doctor over the same clip.Initially, the doctor reportedly paid Kashyap Rs.5 lakh in three instalments, but later lodged a complaint with the police when he started demanding Rs.50 lakh for his silence.
According to the police, Kashyap then allegedly demanded more money from Rao, and the latter asked him to help him get rid of Manjunath.Kashyap said he would come again.Meanwhile,Rao approached Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara,who called and directed the Sadashivanagar police inspector to take up the case and arrest the media persons involved in it.Based on instructions by senior officers A team of police officers in plainclothes then caught Kashyap red-handed they said.
Kashyap,Manjunath and Murali have reportedly been dismissed from their respective companies and they have been even dismissed from Reporters guild of Bangalore Press Club .
When the doctor approached the police on Tuesday, they asked him to call Kashyap to his nursing home to hand over Rs.50 lakh.The police laid a trap and nabbed Kashyap when he came to collect the money.
Hemanth Kashyap has also threatened the police of action against them for arresting him.
H.R.Ranganath, Editor, Public TV, issued a video statement on Wednesday informing the network’s audience that the employee in question had been dismissed from work and that the channel would cooperate with the probe.
Senior officer told media persons that a Padmashree awardee Dr.Raman Rao has visited Sadashivanagar Police station and registered a complaint against the accused stating that he is being blackmailed by one Hemanth Kashyap and Manjunath who introduced themselves as Journalist he called on my Whatsapp call on March 5th and asked me to meet in personnel so I told him to come to my Nursing Home only then on March 5th the said accused Hemanth Kashyap visited my nursing home and he blackmailed me by telling that he has got some Private Videos of him and he threatened him to get telecasted his private video in all the reputed news channel and make it viral he even said that  many other news channel reporter have got his private videos I can’t give guarantee if they telecast so on the next day one by Manjunath who introduced himself as reporter of Samaya News Channel and even he blackmailed to telecast so I immediately called to Hemanth Kashyap and asked him to come and collect the money on the same day he visited the doctors nursing home and firstly he collected 2 lakhs and then again 2 lakhs and lastly 1 Lakh totally he has paid Rs.5 lakhs to them so now again he has called me and blackmailed and threatened again to telecast the private video a Sex Scandal video on all news channel so firstly the doctor immediately visited the Sadashivanagar police station and explained all the thing to inspector of Sadashivanagar Police station about how he has given him Rs.5 lakhs and again they are blackmailing and demanding Rs.50 lakhs so the inspector registered a complaint and informed his seniors about the same the DCP Central,Division Devaraj instructed the inspector to form a special team and nab the criminals based on complaint our team headed by ACP,Niranjan Raje Urs and PI,Sadashivanagar and his cops swung into action and laid a trap and then we asked the doctor to call and tell the accused to come to his nursing home and collect the cash as the cash is ready the doctor followed the instructions of our officers and asked the reporter to come to his nursing home and as on Tuesday at around 6.30 pm the accused came to collect the cash at the same time the cops who were in plain clothes has detained the accused red handedly while accepting bribe during the course of investigation it is revealed that a journalist from another channel was also blackmailing the doctor over the same clip.Initially, the doctor reportedly paid Kashyap Rs.5 lakh in three instalments,During interrogation Kashyap confessed the crime and told the investigation officer that many journalists are aware of the clip and wanted to be paid.Hence, he decided to make the extortion demand.We are verifying his claims,We are also on the lookout for the other journalist,Manjunath, an associate of Kashyap who works as a reporter with the news channel Samaya TV, as they suspect that he too was part of the blackmail and extortion racket.We suspect that many others are involved in the racket.We have got“solid evidence” in the form of CCTV camera footage obtained from Dr. Rao’s clinic at Sadashivanagar, which allegedly shows the journalist receiving money on various days.We have four clips of the accused collecting money from the doctor.The latest one was as recent as Tuesday evening when he was caught.And the Sadashivanagar police have registered a case against the accused under Sections 506 (criminal intimidation), 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication), and 384 (extortion), 385 (putting person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code.The Sadashivanagar police, which had arrested the input chief of a regional news channel, have produced him before the court and taken him into custody for four days,and a massive manhunt is on for the absconding accused identified as Bonkere Manjunath and Cameraman Murali and we have confiscated Hemanth Kashyap’s mobile phone and has been sent to the Cyber Crime cell of the CID, for a detailed analysis.The journalist is suspected to be involved in similar offences in the past.A detailed call details record analysis will reveal the nature of his activities and we request the public to come forward and file a complaint if the accused has blackmailed them he added.

CB-CID summons Cong leader in Pollachi serial sexual assault case

The CB-CID wing of Tamil Nadu police, probing the
sensational Pollachi serial sexual assault case, on Thursday issued summons
to Congress leader Mayura Jayakumar asking him to appear before it on
March 25.

The summons were issued based on custodial interrogation of the key accused
Thirunavukakrasau, who was arrested along with three others in the case.

Mayura Jayakumar was recently made one of the Working Presidents of the party.

The summons were issued to seek explanation from Jayakumar based on some
allegations made by Thirunavukkarasu.

The Pollachi serial sexual assault and blackmail case was transferred to the
Crime Branch-CID for investigation by Director-General of Police T K Rajendran
and the government transferred it to the CBI.

Four accused in the shocking sexual assault case, including the mastermind
Thirunavukarasu, were detained under the Goondas Act.

The four–Thirunavukkarasu, Sathish, Sabarirajan, Vasanthakumar–all in their 20s,
were accused of sexually assaulting many young women in Pollachi area over
a period of time and filming the act.

The mobile phones seized from the accused contained videos of several
women whom the accused had allegedly blackmailed for money and sexual
favours.

Cases were registered against them under Sections 354(A) (sexual
harassment), 354 (B) (assault or use of criminal force) and 392 of IPC
(Central Act XLV of 1860) and Sec 66-E of Information Technology Act,
2000 and Sec 4 of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women
Act, 1998 (Tamil Nadu Act 44 of 1998) against the four accused, who
were later arrested and sent to judicial custody.

The incident came to light when the brother of a victim was assaulted by
the gang for demanding that the videos in the mobile should be deleted.

The case of serial sexual assault and blackmail of scores of women by
the gang, said to be politically influential in Pollachi, triggered widespread
political and social outrage after a leaked video of a victim pleading with
her tormentors prompted the opposition parties to demand stern action
against the accused.

After various political parties strongly condemned it and demanded
strict action against the accused, the government issued an order
transferring the probe to the CBI.

Mumbai, March 20 (Nasheman News) It could probably be a long time before absconding Mumbai diamantaire Nirav Modi – who was arrested by the London Police on Wednesdy – would actually face the extradition process initiated by the Indian government, a top British law expert said on Wednesday.

Modi was held after a UK court executed an arrest warrant issued against him by the Westminster Court on March 13, which was described as “a major victory” by India.

Last week, Indians were stunned to see a carefree Modi, sporting an Ostrich leather jacket, strutting around in London without worries as Indian agencies moved heaven and earth to trace his whereabouts.

The news of the arrest sent ripples of excitement through the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which dared the opposition Congress to question the developments, at the height of the 2019 parliamentary elections.

Sarosh Zaiwalla, Founder-Senior Partner at Zaiwalla & Co. LLP, UK said that issuing the arrest warrant is a first step of the legal process to extradite Modi – among the prime accused along with his uncle Mehul Choksi and others – in the 2018 Rs.13,500-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam.

“The arrest warrant clearly implies that the court is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the conduct described in the request is an aextradition offence. However, as per protocol, Scotland Yard will not address extradition requests until and unless the accused (Modi) has been arrested/presented before the court,” Zaiwalla said.

There is also a time-frame attacked to a warrant – as they do not last forever. So the UK police have upto three months arrest a person – in this case, Modi – after the warrant is issued, the legal luminary told IANS in a brief analysis of the scenario shortly after Modi’s arrest.

Comparing this with another high-profile case of Indian fugitive liquor baron, Vijay Mallya, Zaiwalla said that he (Mallya) was arrested and bailed out nearly two months later, when his extradition hearings began.

“Nirav Modi will be subjected to a re-run of the Mallya case proceedings, starting from being directed to Westminister Magistrate, taken into provisional custody, applying for bail and the then the court will hear his plea,” the 71-year old Mumbai-born lawyer said.

After the court rules for Modi’s extradition, the British Home Secretary would be expected to once again sign the order for compliance. At this stage, complications could arise only if Modi has already acquired the citizenship of any European country or other international citizenship, Zaiwalla explained.

However, it would not matter if Modi remains on UK soil, but there could be delays with a long legal battle ahead subject to various international and extraterritorial legalities involved, cautioned Zaiwalla.

Incidentally, Mehul Choksi has already acquired the citizenship of Antigua & Barbados, as reported by IANS (Jan. 21) and he had surrendered his Indian passport to India’s High Commission in Guyana.

Zaiwalla said it would be interesting to see if Nirav Modi has applied for asylum in UK, then the extradition proceedings are unlikely to begin until that (asylum) application is rejected.

“A person who applies for asylum in the UK is given ‘interim asylum’ and his status as a legal resident of UK remains until his application is finally determined and he is given asylum or rejected,” said Zaiwalla.

Founded in 1982, Zaiwalla & Co. LLP is Asia’s first law firm firm in London and has fought over 1,200 international litigations and arbitrations with clientele ranging from various governments in the world to top global celebrities and political personalities.