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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.

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A 28-year-old home maker gave a tough fight to an armed chain snatcher to save her Thali (gold chain)in front of her house in Koira village in the outskirts of the city on Friday.

The woman identified as Navitha Devraj was standing outside the house after seeking off her husband who went to Bengaluru for work.

minutes later,the accused,armed with a knife and covering his face with a handscraf approached her and grabbed her gold chain weighing 64 grams.

It was a sudden attack but Navitha held her chain tightly and started shouting while grabbing the knife from one hand to stop him from attacking.

Due to this tough resistance,the accused pulled out a partial chain of 24 grams and escaped leaving the knife behind.

Neighbouring who heard Navitha screams rushed to her help and searched for the accused but by then he managed to escape . 

Navitha saved 38 grams of her gold chain while the remaining 24 grams the accused had taken away.

Navitha later came to Devaraju,a shopkeeper and narrated the incident who rushed back and informed the police she said in her complaint.

On Saturday the couple visited the police station and filed a formal complaint while handing over the knife to the police,which the accused had left behind.

The Vishwanathapura police have taken up a case and are investigating.

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Karnataka’s Minister of Health,Family Welfare, and Medical Education,Dr K Sudhakar,has directed health officials to take all precautions to prevent disease outbreaks in the state’s flood-affected areas.

Dr K Sudhakar,Minister for Health & Family
Welfare and Medical Education,has instructed health officials to take all precautions to prevent outbreak of any disease in the flood hit regions of the State.

Dr K Sudhakar reviewed the health department’s flood preparedness in a meeting with Health Commissioner K V Trilok Chandra, Principal Secretary of Medical Education department,MD of National Health Mission Arundhathi Chandrashekar were present at the review meeting.

health officials at Arogya Soudha in Bengaluru.

The officials were instructed to spray disinfectant in places which are affected by floods.The officials have also been told to be on high alert in flood hit regions and educate people about potential outbreak of diseases.

Vulnerable segments such as senior citizens, pregnant women and children must be given special attention during these floods,the Minister added.

The second wave of Covid is not over yet.Ensure that free masks and sanitizers are distributed to people in flood relief centres,the Minister told the officials.

The spread of communicable diseases such as chikangunya and dengue is low this year but the department needs to be on guard for any spike in cases in the coming days.

The Minister told the officials to make use of mobile health units in case there are no primary health centres or government hospitals close to flood relief centres.

In worst affected districts,the Department must appoint nodal officers to coordinate with the district administration,he instructed.

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Bengaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) on Friday morning conducted another Operation Rowdy and raided active gangs house and during raid they have allegedly seized five daggers and two lakh cash so far from one of the houses of the active and notorious rowdies, the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch informed.

The raids have been conducted at the houses of Wilson Garden Naga,Cycle Ravi,Silent Sunil, JB Narayan,and their associates,said Bengaluru Central Crime Branch.

A massive raid was conducted after the murder of Joseph alias Babli who was hacked to death by the other gang of Rowdies inside the bank and their CCTV footage shows they were armed with lethal weapons and were seen coming in two wheeler with lethal weapons.

Senior officer told media persons,A Massive raid was conducted by our officers and men in the early morning on the active and Notorious rowdies who are still active in their illegal activities.

During raid we found Two lakh cash and one dagger were allegdly seized from the house of Wilson Garden Naga,while four daggers seized from other rowdies.A total of 45 houses were searched by the CCB.

During the raids on Friday, police found a cache of 254 Aadhaar cards at the house of a rowdy sheeter Shahnawaz from Shivajinagar,a known associate of Ravi.Shahnawaz is also absconding.

We are yet to ascertain as to why he had collected Aadhaar cards of so many people.We suspect it may be related to some property issues, a senior officer said.Police also recovered five daggers and Rs.2 lakh cash from the houses raided.

Changing strategy on Friday,CCB targeted all members of the most notorious groups currently active.Of the four main rowdies targeted,only Ravi is absconding.

The other three were there at their residences during the raids.They and their associates are being questioned about their activities.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Joint CP Crime,Sandeep Patil DCP Crime-1,KP Ravikumar,DCP Crime-2,BS Angadi,ACPs,as,Nagaraj,Parameshwara, Hanumantharaya,Jaganath Rai,Dharmendra HN,Gautham Kumar,and PIs,and staff who has conducted a surprise and a massive operation on Rowdy sheeters who are still active and there would be zero tolerance for rowdy activities and the drive taken up will go a long way in controlling the menace he added.

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Three police personnel of RMC Yard including inspector suspended for deriliction of duty for forcing street vendor to smoke Ganja

A woman inspector and two of her colleagues were suspended on Thursday after a police inquiry found them guilty of forcing a street vendor to smoke ganja and fixing him in a false drugs case when he failed to pay the bribe. 

Bengaluru City Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant issued the suspension order of RMC Yard police inspector, Parvathamma,PSI, Anjinappa and constable,Umesh till further orders following a report by DCP,North,Dharmender Kumar Meena. 

The case exposes police high-handedness in Bengaluru.The action by the police top brass came after the victim tried to kill himself because of the drug stigma,and his family filed a complaint. 

Senior officer told reporters,On July 14,around 8 pm,RMC Yard police inspector,Parvathamma S picked up two men,Shivaraj and Nagendra,who were chatting outside their home near Poojamma Temple Road in Goraguntepalya.

She bundled them into her patrol car and took them to the police station.The men had to spend the entire night in the lock-up without even knowing what their crime was.Police officers allegedly demanded bribes for their release. 

The next day,police let Nagendra go after booking him in a petty case but Shivaraj,45,wasn’t so lucky.He was forced to smoke a ganja cigarette and take a medical test.

Eventually, police booked him under the stringent Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.Shivaraj got bail on July 17 but was so traumatised by the turn of events that he consumed poison in order to kill himself. 

His family rushed him to hospital in the nick of time and doctors were able to save him. 

The family decided to escalate the matter and complained to the DCP on July 19.Besides Parvathamma,they named, sub-inspector Anjanappa and two police constables. 

Dharmendra Kumar Meena,the DCP,summoned the four police officers for an inquiry and questioned them separately.But the clinching evidence was a mobile phone video recording of the incident the DCP submitted in the report to senior officers.

The video shows Parvathamma picking up Shivaraj and Nagendra from their house.This was  with the FIR’s claim that Shivaraj was picked up from Kuvempu Circle around 1 pm on July 14 by a constable named Eranna. 

But according to the FIR,Shivaraj was picked up while he was returning home but he wasn’t drunk. The constable suspected he had taken drugs and took him to the police station.Shivaraj was later subjected to a medical test at a private hospital in Cox Town,which confirmed drug consumption, the FIR states. 

According to the report, submitted by DCP Meena,Parvathamma detained two youths near Goraguntepalya on the night of July 14 while on patrol duty one of them was smoking a cigarette and threw it away on seeing the police vehicle.

The cops assumed he was consuming drugs and disposed them of on seeing them.He was taken to RMC Yard police station.There,the four cops gave him a cigarette filled with ganja and told him to smoke it, the report read.

As per the inquiry conducted by ACP, Yeshwanthpura Sub-Division it was found that the only reason Shivaraj was framed in the false case was that he couldn’t pay a bribe. He didn’t have any money as his groundnut business suffered in the lockdown. 

After receiving a detailed investigation report DCP,Meena summoned all the four police personnel including inspector and sub inspector Anjanapa while questioning DCP Meena,grew suspicious on the body language of PSI and when he saw Anjinappa repeatedly touching the right pocket of his trousers and directed his staff to frisk the SI.

While frisking they found Anjinappa was recording his conversation with the senior officer by switching on the recorder of his mobile phone 14 minutes of the talk had been recorded secretly recorded the conversation on his mobile phone.

The police officers have been suspended until further orders says order issued by commissioner of police Kamal Pant and he warned all the police personnel that strict action will be taken if they indulge in illegal activities he added.

BENGALURU: Karnataka on Sunday reported 1,001 new Covid-19 infections and 22 new deaths, and compared to the previous day, the Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate (CFR) for the day increased from 1.56 per cent to 2.19 per cent.

In the state, Haveri and Bagalkote have the highest CFR with 19.23% and 19.05% respectively, in the last seven days.  Meanwhile, the day-wise positivity rate decreased from 1.21 per cent to 0.68 per cent. This took the total tally to 28,94,557 and 36,374, respectively.

Meanwhile, Bengaluru reported 165 cases and 3 deaths.  There were 1,465 discharges in the state and 293 in the capital, which took Karnataka’s total recoveries to 28,34,741.  Active cases in the state stand at 23,419, which includes 8,215 cases in Bengaluru. The total Covid tests done in the day were 1,46,988. 

BENGALURU: Karnataka’s Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday announced his resignation at the end of his speech at the celebrations of his government completing two years of governance. A teary-eyed BS Yediyurappa said he would submit his resignation to Governor Tawarchand Gehlot post-lunch. 

“With your permission, I have decided that post-lunch I will go to Raj Bhavan and submit resignation as Karnataka’s Chief Minister. I am not sad. I am happy that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and JP Nadda gave BS Yediyurappa additional two years despite breaching the 75-year-old cap. Words are not enough to thank them. I appeal that all of us should work together to build the party,” BS Yediyurappa said announcing his resignation from the dais.

Soon after he visited the Raj Bhavan to submit his resignation. Yediyurappa has been asked to continue as caretaker CM until the BJP’s parliamentary committee takes a call on the next Chief Minister. Speaking to the media after submitting his resignation, BS Yediyurappa said his resignation was voluntary and nobody has coerced him to step down. 

BS Yediyurappa made a fiery yet emotional speech at the event celebrating his government’s 2nd anniversary. “At a time when there were no cars, I remember cycling to places to work for the party. We built the party when there was no one to do it,” he recalled

“It has been an honour to have served the state for the past two years. I have decided to resign as the Chief Minister of Karnataka. I am humbled and sincerely thank the people of the state for giving me the opportunity to serve them,” BS Yediyurappa tweeted after submitting his resignation to the Governor. 

Udupi: A special prayer service was held at the Mother of Sorrows Church in Udupi on Friday for the recovery of Congress leader Oscar Fernandes, who is under treatment at a private hospital here following a head injury.

Udupi diocese bishop Dr Gerald Isaac Lobo conducted the prayer service.

Addressing the gathering, former minister Vinay Kumaar Sorake said doctors are providing the best treatment to Frenandes.

He had the opportunity to serve at the national level for a very long period.Though the doctors are putting their efforts, prayers are also needed at this juncture, he said.

“We have offered prayers in mosques, church and also in temples. Let us pray for his speedy recovery,” he added.

Prayers were also held at various religious centres in Udupi.

Special prayers were held in St Francis Xavier Church Udyavar, Polipu Jamia Masjid, Kapu Janardhan Temple and Sri Vishwanath Kshetra.

The 80-year-old leader was hospitalised after suffering a fall while practicing yoga at his apartment in the city on Sunday.