Archives for July 2021

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Members of NSUI and AIDSO booked for organising protest violating Covid protocol

Vidhana Soudha police on Friday booked members of NSUI and AIDSO for organising protest In front of S.J.P Campus Technical Board.

S.J.P Campus near KR Circle demanding promotion of students without exams during lockdown enforcement  .

According to Shivakumar the protestors comprising of Manish G Raj,General secretary of NSUI,Anvith Kateel,K Nanjegowda,Sanjay Raj.Uday Shankar and Apoorva of AIDSO, along with 200 students protested outside the SJP campus shouting slogans against the Board and demanding that the students should be promoted without diploma exams.

The police rushed to the spot and called in additional force to dispersed the protestors.

Senior officer told media persons,Based on the complaint filed by Shivakumar,Head Constable attached to Vidhana Soudha an FIR has been registered against the protestors charging them under Disaster Management act and also under unlawful assembly and section 269 (likely to spread infection which is dangerous to life).

The protestors did not follow any protocol and organised protest which is violations to the guidelines issued by the state government,he said.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)appointed Lingayat MLA and Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai as the next Chief Minister of Karnataka following BS Yediyurappa’s resignation.

Bommai will take oath on Wednesday at Rajbhavan.

Karnataka’s caretaker chief minister,BS Yediyurappa declared the name of his successor on Tuesday.Basavaraj Bommai.A final decision in this regard was taken during a legislative party meeting of the BJP at the Capitol Hotel in Bengaluru earlier today.Bommai’s name was seconded by KS Eshwarappa,R Ashok,Govind Karjol and the other MLAs.

A Lingayat leader, like his predecessor,Basavaraj Bommai (61) held multiple key portfolios- Home, Law and Parliamentary Affairs- until his elevation to the top post on Tuesday.

Like Yediyurappa (Banajiga sub-sect),Bommai (Sadar sub-sect), son of former Chief Minister SR Bommai also hails from the Lingayat community.

The community comprises about 17% of the state’s population and Bommai with his political experience was one of the favorites who were considered for being the new guard.

It was expected that the BJP will opt for a member from the community,considering it is the party’s prime vote bank and they cannot be seen as isolating the community by removing Yediyurappa as the Chief Minister. 

The development was announced by Central observer and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday.

Bommai,61, to take oath as the state’s 26th chief minister on Wednesday. 

Bommai,who was also said to be Yediyurappa’s recommendation for the position of CM,belongs to the Sadara Lingayat community.His father,SR Bommai,also served as Karnataka’s Chief Minister.

Before foraying into politics,Bommai was an engineer by profession after graduting from B V Bhoomreddy Engineering College in Hubbali and was an industrial entrepreneur.He also worked in Tata Motors for three years.

Bommai started his career in politics as a Youth Janata Dal member.Soon,he was appointed as the chief secretary to the then CM J H Patel in 1996.

Since joining the BJP in 2008,Bommai rose among the party ranks and went on to hold the portfolio of Water Resources Development for five continuous years from 2008 t0 2013 when the BJP was in power.

Bommai has been a party fixture and a close confidante to Yediyurappa.He is a two-time MLC and three-time MLA from Shiggaon in the Haveri district.

Interestingly,Bommai is one more in the line of fathers and sons who’ve both become CMs.

While Karnataka itself has the example of Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy,Mulayam and Akhilesh Yadav led UP,Odisha had Biju and Naveen at helm.Fathers of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh’s current CMs also led the states before.

Yediyurappa resigned from his post of Chief Minister of Karnataka on Monday, exactly two years after he took charge.

In an emotional farewell address,Yediyurappa termed his tenure as Chief Minister as an ‘agni pareeksha’.

His resignation was accepted by the Karnataka Governor Thawarchand Gehlot on Monday afternoon.

The resignation came after a drawn-out internal conflict within the BJP in which a few party leaders had made dissenting statements against Yediyurappa, particularly asking for his removal.

The decision was made by the BJP high command to replace Yediyurappa earlier this month.

Yediyurappa visited New Delhi this month along with his son BY Vijayendra to speak with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, following which he resigned to his fate.

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The city Rural Railway police on Monday cracked the clueless murder case of a 70-year-old woman who was strangled by her daughter-in-law and paramour and later dumped the body on railway track in the outskirt of Tumkur,to make it look like accidental death.

The accused has been identified as,Latha,and MB Balachandra,42 resident of Kythasandra.

Senior officer told reporters,on July 20th a highly mutilated and torso a unknown aged women body was found lying on the herihalli railway track the City Rural Railway police visited the spot and registered a case of unnatural death and sent the body for postmortem.

SP Railways,Siri Gowri visited the spot along with DYSP, Railway,Ashok D,and after collecting the information SP Railways found some suspicious about the death and formed special team to probe the case.

As soon as the probe was ordered by senior officers,team headed by,PI,Bharmappa Malur,PI, Shivakumar and team swung into action.

The Rural Railway police circulated the pic of women across the police station to identify the identity of the woman as the photo was circulated in all whatsapp groups of police station.

Our team received a information from Ilkal police station that a severe head of the women found in ilkal in tiles Laden truck.

As the information was reached our team of police personnel visited to ilkal and after getting information that a missing complaint was filed in Mandya district that after visiting to her daughter in law house she went missing.

Our team called the family person of deceased and the second son of deceased Sathish came to the police station and after showing the body seeing the tattoo on the deceased body the second son of deceased identified that it was her mother Ningamma.

After identifying the identity the team registered a case of Murder and started the probe during probe the team visited the crime spot and with the help of technical investigation skills.

The police team gathered evidence and a detailed investigations led them to zero in on MB Balachandra,42,a BMTC conductor from Tumkur by profession.The team grilled him who spilled the beans and revealed that he and deceased daughter-in-law strangled her to death and dumped the body on railway track.

Based on his statement our team arrested Latha daughter-in-law of the deceased and recovered gold valuables belonging to the deceased which they had robbed after killing her along with cash of Rs.6,000 from them.

The accused also dumped the severe head of the deceased in a tiles laden truck which was later found in Ilkal a 350 kms away to conceal her identity.

ADGP Railways,Bhaskar Rao,along with SP, Railways,Siri Gowri,addressing the media at a press conference at his office said that the deceased Ningamma,resident of Tubinakere in Mandya district was missing from July 19 after she went to her daughter in law house to collect her dues and missing since then.

Meanwhile the police recovered the highly mutilated torso on the railway track and the next day and few days later found her head from the truck which landed in Ilkal in Bagalakot on July 20.

The police team after verifying the physical description found the head and got it identified from the deceased second son TM Satish,from Tubinkere in Mandya who identified the body as her mother Ningamma after seeing tatoo on her hand

Suspecting that it could be a murder,a team of police led by SP Siri Gowri to probe the case.

A detailed investigation led the police to zero in on Latha and her paramour Balachandra who confessed to the murder.

During investigation it was found that the accused Latha,aged around 50,resident of Kyathasandra having grudges against Ningamma and owe her Rs.1.5 lakh and monthly maintenance from the property belonging to her husband.

After the death of her husband Latha had an illicit relationship with Balachandra and Ningamma came to know and was objecting to it.

Unable to bear this,Latha hatched a plan with Balachandra and the duo after calling Ningamma on the pretext of giving her pension amount, strangulated her to death and dumped the body on the railway track to make it look like accident .

After the train run over the body,Balachandra carried the severed head in a bag and dumped it on the granite slabs laden truck parked near a toll gate .

However after the rural police registered a case of unnatural death and recovered the head from the Ilkal police,probed the case to find that Ningamma was last seen with the accused.

The accused had also removed the gold valuables after murdering her the gold valuables recovered from them and further investigation is on.

Finally ADGP,Railways,Bhaskar Rao,appreciated SP, Railways,Smt Siri Gowri D R, DYSP Railways, Bengaluru Sub-Division,Ashok D,PI,Bharmappa Mallur,and Shivakumar V,PSI,Smt.Bharathi D,ASI,Kantharaju,and staff as,Siddaraju and Maruthi has been appreciated for the exemplary and good piece of investigation done in cracking the clueless murder case successfully and a suitable reward will be given to the team for the commendable job done by them he added.

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A 31-year-old milk vendor was stabbed to death by his cousin over a financial row in Chamarajpet on Monday.

The deceased has been identified as Vinod Kumar,resident of Chickepte.

Senior officer as,DCP,South Harish Pandey with ACP,rushed to spot and collected the information about the murder.

Senior officer told media persons,Vinod had lent Rs.6 lakh to his cousin Arun Kumar,34,a year ago and the duo used to fight after Vinod Kumar was demanding repayment of the loan.

On Monday Vinod went to Arun house and locked  the house from inside and humiliated him in front of his wife and two children demanding the money.

Heated argument ensued when Arun Kumar tried to call the police from his mobile to complain about the harassment but Vinod snatched the phone.

Enraged,Arun took a knife and stabbed Vinod repeatedly,killing him on the spot.

The Kempegowda Nagar police rushed to the spot and arrested Arun and seized the knife for further investigation he added.

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Staff of the Transaction Solution international, city based electronic surveillance and cash management company,caught two persons from Uttar Pradesh,red handed near pipeline road under KP Agrahara police station limits.

The two accused has been identified as,Anand Kumar and Shahid Ahmed hailing from Uttar Pradesh.

Senior officer told reporters,The special team of Transaction solution international cash management company who were appointed to probe the fraudulent transaction in ATM got alert that miscreants are withdrawing money from SBI ATM the team of staff rushed to spot and caught when they were withdrawing cash fraudulently and keeping the cash in their account intact at an SBI ATM in KP Agrahara on Friday.

The accused Anand Kumar and Shahid Ahmed were caught within seconds after they withdrew Rs.10,000 from SBI ATM situated near jain temple in pipeline road.

Based on a series of complaints about the fraudulent transactions,Yogananda B,manager of Rajajinagar industrial estate branch outsourced Transaction solutions international company to probe the fraudulent transactions which is incurring huge loss to the bank.

The staff kept surveillance after analyzing the CCTV footage and zeroed in on the accused  while they landed at the pipeline road ATM to withdraw the cash Rs.10,000.

Inquiries revealed that the duo have used  indigenous method of jamming the cash dispenser to block the sensor at the time of dispensing  the cash.

Since the machine is jammed the transactions would not be recorded even if the money is withdrawn.

Using this the accused have withdrawn huge amounts of cash from many ATMs across the city.

Inquiries revealed that the duo had opened accounts in several banks in different banks and used the accounts for such fraudulent transactions.

The accused have been handed over to KP Agarahara police for further investigations to ascertain the details about the gang and further investigation is on.

It may be recalled that in March this year, Rajajinagar police arrested Deepak H,20,from Hameerpur,UP.We suspect that the accused use similar modus operandi and withdraw cash.

As soon as inserting the card and entered the pin,the accused would place the fingers inside the cash dispenser to jam and simultaneously pull the cash.

By doing this the system would send a report of technical snag to the system and the transaction is nullified and the money would not be deducted from the account with this the bank incurred huge loss our team are investigating further to ascertain their network he added.

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Mother and son killed in freak accident hit by train while crossing railway track in Bengaluru

A 52-year-old woman and her son (30) were killed in a freak accident when they came under a moving train while crossing a railway track near Lottegollahalli on Sunday morning.

The deceased,has been identified as,Manjula and her son Harish,hailed from Bidadi and they used to survive by selling handmade jewellery at traffic junctions in the city,said the police.

Senior officer told, immediately Baiyyapanahalli railway police rushed to spot and removed the body and shifted for postmortem.

The Baiyyappanahalli railway police who are probing the case,received the alert from passersby who spotted the bodies around 8 am and suspect that the incident might have taken place at 7 am.

Preliminary investigation has revealed that the duo had planned to visit Malai Mahadeshwara temple at MM Hills by foot.

Before they left,Manjula wanted to visit her daughter and son-in-law who live near Sanjaynagar and running panipuri business.

They took a bus and got down near BEL circle before heading to Sanjaynagar.We initially suspected suicide but after questioning the family it was concluded that it was an accident as while crossing railway track they were hit by train and killed in a freak accident and further investigation is on he added.

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In a special drive by East Division police,of Indiranagar police raided the Phoenix poker room gambling den on Saturday raided,arrested 57 persons and seized three swiping machines and cash Rs 2.3 lakh from them.

Senior officer told media persons,Based on the information a team of police headed by ACP,Kumar D,raided a phoenix poker room situated in the multi storeyed building on KT road and sealed the premises.

The raid was carried out following a complaint from the concerned residents complaining of large scale illegal activities at the gambling centre.

During the raid as our team arrived many people jumped from the adjacent building while some scaled down the pipes from the backside of the building to escape during the raid .

However the police maintained that except one persons the police have arrested all of them who were gambling in the premises.

The residents also alleged that despite Covid lockdown and strict guidelines in force,many people gather to gamble at the centre.

Though the jurisdictional police were aware of this they ignored due to reasons best known to them,a resident complained to senior officers on social media platform.

We are investigating into the allegations made by the residents and action will be initiated after the probe said senior officer.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,S Murugan, DCP East,Dr.SD Sharanappa,ACP,Kumar D,PI,Harish BC,and other staff for the successful raid and sealing the premises which was running gambling illegally he added.

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Bengaluru City Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant along with DCP North,Dharmendra Kumar Meena, ACP,Malleswaram sub-division,KS Venkatesh Naidu,PI, Venkategowda with other officers and staff attended the Meet the BCP to address their grievances at Janasampark divas in Nandini layout.

Kamal Pant heard all the grievances of residents of Nandini layout and assured them of improving the police patrolling and curbing anti social activities by keeping a close watch on Rowdy elements in the area.

After hearing all the grievances from general public,Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant on Saturday instructed the city police to intensify patrolling to keep a tab on anti-social elements and take strict action.

Many residents complained of eve teasing and bike stunts the residents said to commissioner if he say no and oppose them not to do bike stunts they come to fight and threatens them says a resident.

Another resident said in their grievance that drug menace is a major issue in Nandini layout police station limits and asked the commissioner to keep a close watch on this area.

The directions came following grievances from the members of the general public about the  incident of eve teasing and bike stunts in many areas of Nandini Layout .

The police should take strict action if they find anyone involved in such nuisance eve teasing and bike stunts,he reiterated .

Mr.Pant also instructed the jurisdictional police to keep a close watch on the habitual offenders and rowdies and take strict action against them if they are still continuing their illegal activities.