Pramesh Jain

City Police commissioner,Kamal pant imposed prohibitory orders from 6  pm of December to 6 am of January in the wake of fresh threat of of new strain of covid virus.

The Bengaluru City Police have started preparing for the New Year by putting measures in place to maintain social distancing and deploying police forces at multiple places where the public mostly gathers on New Year’s Eve.

Mr.Pant held a meeting with senior police officials earlier to discuss the security measures on new years eve before announcing the prohibitory orders under section 144 of Cr PC.

Kamal Pant,Bengaluru city police commissioner,along with other senior officers held a press conference at his office,in the view of New year’s Eve he said there has been elaborate security arrangements made across city to look into it no new year celebration will be allowed in public places.

More than 10,000 police personnel will be on field  across city,with all Addl CPs,Joint CPs, DCPs, ACPs,PIs,and plain clothes policemen will be also deployed,strict vigil rounds will be conducted across city all Hoysalas,Cheetahs,will be on patrolling round the clock to keep a watch.

Pant said,Section144 of CRPC would be imposed across the city in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic.The 144 Section will be in force from 6 pm of December 31 till 6 am of January 1,he said.

Gathering of five or more is prohibited,he said adding that the orders is against celebrations but ensure safety of people.

Apartment residents and private clubs are allowed to celebrate within their premises but music program,band and DJ is prohibited.

Hotels and restaurants are allowed to function but they should ensure recused covid guidelines  like masks and social distancing and provision of sanitization.

Celebration at public places,roads and parks are banned and police patrolling has been intensified to enforce prohibitory orders.

Police have been deployed to checks instances of jolly rides and bike stunts and also carry special drive on drink and.drive .

Strict action would be taken against people who violate prohibitory orders under disaster management act and their vehicles be seized,Mr. Pant warned miscreants to stay indoors.

Pant also said that all unnecessary movement of traffic beginning December 30 would be prevented.I appeal to the citizens to cooperate with the administration in ensuring safe celebrations.

Special focus will be on CBD area as mentioned Pant said that MG road,brigade road,church Street,Koramangala,Indiranagar and many other places it will be complete no man’s zone to ensure prohibitory orders.

Wine shops and bars have been directed to shut down by 11 pm.

We have requested BMRCL Metro trains to function till 11 pm on 31st and a official release will be issued by the authorities.

Flyovers will be closed from 6 pm and nakabandi will be set up at all major junctions to conduct vehicle checks and drink drive checks will be till next day morning 2am.

Guidelines includes :

Gathering of five or more people on public places including roads open areas, parks and grounds for new year celebration is strictly prohibited.

No new year celebration of any type involving gathering shall be allowed.However in house celebration in residential complexes and private clubs may be held for residents and members but without special events.

Hotels,Malls,restaurants,clubs,pubs,club house or any similar type of establishment holding new year events shall not organise any special events like DJ events,shows,program or performance, music nights and music bands or dance programs.

However they may carry out their regular business activities including music within permissible decibels following covid protocols.

Management of establishments shall allow guests only with advance booking for which proof of booking shall be issued.

In notified areas,timing of reservation and guest movement will be regulated by Jurisdictional DCPs.

The management shall not allow waiting crowd to form outside their premises.

Management of hotels, malls, pubs and restaurants should take all precautionary measures in accordance with prevalent covid-19 guidelines along with the guidelines issued by police department,pollution control board and fire and emergency service and other local authorities should be followed.

On Monday,state Home minister,Basavaraj Bommai and Minister of Health and Medical Education Dr K Sudhakar held a meeting with Health department officials and senior police officers, where it was decided that the Health Department will come up with guidelines to ensure the New Year is celebrated in a ‘simple and meaningful way’.

Earlier on Sunday,Bommai had said,The guidelines will be issued to prevent further spread of coronavirus. The objective is to avoid a huge congregation of people at public places, which gives room for coronavirus to spread rapidly.”

In the December 17 order, the state government had appealed to the public to keep celebrations indoors and banned all DJ events and dance parties. The order, issued by Chief Secretary Vijay Bhaskar, permitted bursting of only green crackers, while revellers were advised to refrain from handshakes and hugs.

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The state cabinet is expected to take up the controversial Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill 2020 for approval on Monday. 

BENGALURU : The state cabinet is expected to take up the controversial Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill 2020 for approval on Monday. To ease Bengaluru traffic, the Cabinet ministers may give the nod to the advanced traffic information and management system using the Japanese government grant. 

The other agenda on the list includes the approval for a brand new emergency response system which will be set up at a cost of Rs 35 crore, and the premier BR Ambedkar School of Economics University, which has been delayed raising concerns of academicians. The setting up of University of Horticultural Sciences too may come up for discussion. 

The cabinet is likely to sanction Rs 150 crore to pump 430 million litres of treated sewage water a day from KR Puram, Medahalli and Kadugodi-Whitefield areas to fill up 38 tanks in Hoskote, on the outskirts of Bengaluru. It is expected to take up the issue of greening Nandi Hills and Kemmangundi to make them more picturesque to boost tourism. The hills will be handed over to the Horticulture Department to grow more trees.

The cabinet may approve tightened laws relating to cash transportation under the Karnataka Private Security Agencies Rules 2020. After many cyber crimes, it is expected to take up and approve setting up of a state-of-the-art cyber-forensic laboratories throughout the state under the smart policing project. The issue of appointment of Chairman of State Medical Supplies Corporation after a series of serious allegations about medical supplies too is likely to come up.

Council adjournment likely to be discussed 
The state cabinet is likely to discuss the untimely adjournment of the Legislative Council by Chairman Prathapchandra Shetty that led to ugly scenes on the floor of the House

Bengaluru: Amid talks that the Karnataka cabinet expansion or reshuffle is likely next month, senior BJP MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, who had earlier claimed that B S Yediyurappa will not remain Chief Minister for long, on Friday hinted at ‘historical changes’ in the state after Sankranti.

He indicated that ‘Uttarayana’, the period after Sankranti, may prove good for the northern part of the state.

“…whether it will be cabinet expansion or reshuffle or something else…for all these things- there is possibility of historical changes after Makara Sankramana (Sankranti),” the Vijayapura MLA told reporters in that city.

Reiterating that he was not aspiring for any Ministerial post, he said the high command would take a good decision and do justice to Vijayapura district, “as injustice has happened for so long.”

Yatnal had in October claimed that Yediyurappa will not remain CM for long and the high command has decided that his successor will be from the north Karnataka region.

He had even accused the Chief Minister of taking all the development work to his home district of Shivamogga, while taking back funds allocated to MLAs of other constituencies.

Reacting to Yatnal’s comments, Union Minister Sadananda Gowda said the former was just an MLA and does not hold any official party position to speak on such matters.

“When the right people speak on issues at the right forum, it will be meaningful and will earn respect.

Who is Basangouda Patil Yatnal? He is neither the national leader of our party nor its Karnataka unit president. He is not even in a position to speak on such matters.He is just an ordinary MLA,” Gowda said.

The Union Minister said it was not right on the part of Yatnal to issue statements to the media daily and added that if he wished to raise issues, he could speak to the national president, the state president or the CM.

“Making such statements publicly will not do good for his political future,” he said.

There have been speculations in some quarters in recent times that the BJP high command was mulling over a change in leadership, considering Yediyurappa’s age.

However, the state BJP had recently strongly refuted reports about replacing the 77-year-old Lingayat strongman.

Talks about cabinet reshuffle or expansion have resurfaced in BJP circles amid reports that senior party leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to visit the state on January 15 or 16.

Yediyurappa has been waiting for some time now to carry out the cabinet exercise, as he was asked by BJP national president J P Nadda at their November 18 meeting in New Delhi to wait for the clearance from the central leadership.

The cabinet expansion or reshuffle is expected to be a tightrope walk for the Chief Minister, considering that there are too many aspirants, from the party old guard to Congress- JD(S) rebels who are now BJP legislators.

The cabinet currently has 27 members, and seven berths are still vacant.

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Sandalwood Drug Case: Ragini Dwivedi shifted to Sanjay Gandhi hospital from parapana Agrahara jail:

Kannada film star Ragini Dwivedi arrested in a drug racket linked to kannada film industry has been admitted to  hospital after she complained health complications on Thursday morning.

The CCB officials on September 4th arrested Ragini after several hours of interrogation.

CCB charged her for consuming and peddling drugs with others accused in the case identified as Ravishankar and Viren Khanna.

She tried to get out on bail but in vein.However her associate Sanjjana Galrani also arrested in similar charges managed to get out on bail citing health reasons.

Even Former Minister Roshan Baig arrested by CBI in IMA fraud case and remanded to central prison of Parappana Agrahara prison was granted bail on health reasons.

This could be the reason why Ragini is building evidence to avail bail, sources said .

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The North Division Police of Yeshwanthpura police on Monday arrested a gang of five who used to take vehicles on rental basis and were selling them after changing the registration numbers.

The accused has been identified as,Arif,26,and his associates as,Koustubh,32 from Belagavi, syed Arman Faris,23,Sulaiman Pasha,23,and Tousif,26 from chandra layout and Chamarajapete

DCP North, Dharmendra Kumar Meena,told reporters,The gang was busted following a complaint filed by Girish,a city based businessman that the accused tried to sell him a SUV for RS.5 lakh with registration documents.

In his complaint Girish said that he met Arif and Koustubh while travelling from Belgaum to city few days ago.

The duo introduced themselves as dealers of second hand vehicles and offered to get him good condition vehicles for cheaper price.

Girish accepted their offer and exchanged the contact details.When on Sunday Arif called Girish stating that he has a fortuner car from Belagavi for Rs five lakh and came in the car to meet.

After test drive girish agreed to buy and asked for vehicle documents.The accused took RS.5,000 towards advance payment and handed him over a photocopies of the documents.

They returned asking Girish to arrange the rest of the amount and left in the car.Girish got the document checked to find it fake and filed a complaint.

Based on the complaint,a team led by,ACP,NT Srinivas Reddy,under the supervision of Yeshwanthpura police inspector Mohammed Mukarram,and his crime staff swung into action and track down Arif,and his associate Koustubh,from Belagavi.

During the course of investigation the accused confessed the crime and based on their statement the team nabbed their associates as,syed Arman faris,Sulaiman Pasha,and Tousif, from chandra layout and Chamarajapete.

A detailed Inquiry revealed that the accused had gone to Goa and taken the SUV on rent.The accused later escaped with SUV and came to Belagavi where they tampered the vehicle number and changed the registration to prepare a set of fake documents.

The accused using similar modus operandi stole 13 bikes from in and around the city and forged the registration numbers to sell.The police have recovered the SUV Fortuner Car and 13 two wheelers worth of Rs.35 Lakhs from them.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee, DCP, North,Dharmendra Kumar Meena, ACP, Yeshwanthpura Sub-Division,NT Srinivas Reddy,PI,Mohammed Mukarram,and his team as,PSI,Vinod Rathod,and crime staff as,Prasanna,Appusabvali, Dayanand,Peerapa and other staff for the commendable job done by them and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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The Whitefield Division Police of Kadugodi police have detected clueless murder case and arrested a hardware shop owner and his associate who has brutally murdered a 57 year old priest who was missing under mysterious circumstances from past 108 days as three months.

The accused has been identified as,Manjunath K,39,resident of Hosakote,and Gopi,20,native of kuppam in Andhra Pradesh.

The deceased Neelakanta Reddy priest of kashi Vishwanath temple was also lending money to people for interest.

According to the police the accused Manjunath owner of hardware shop had borrowed RS.10 lakh from Dixit as loan but could not repay due to loss in business during pandemic.

Dixit demanded manjunath to return and the duo had heated argument.On September 5th Dixit went missing and his family members filed a missing complaint with Kadugodi police.

The Kadugodi police swung into action and conducted a investigation and found that Manjunath on the pretext of returning money called Dixit and bludgeoned him to death before burying the body near the shop.He had even cemented the place to avoid suspicion.

Senior officer,told media persons that,Neelakanta’s family members said he has been missing since September 5 and they had filed a missing complaint.Two days ago,they filed another complaint raising suspicions over the involvement of a person called Manjunath in his disappearance.

Acting on a complaint the Kadugodi police inspector and his team swung into action after collecting information from the relatives of priest the team started their investigation and kept a close watch on the suspect and after collaborating technical evidence and inputs the team detained the suspect.

After detaining the team grilled them who has  confessed the crime killing Neelakanta Dixit, residing in Kadugodi near Nanjundeshwara temple on Teru Beedi.

Manjunath,who confessed to killing Neelakanta  Has showed us the location where he disposed of the body, we have located the body in the presence of Tahshildar near Lakshmi palace.

Neelakanta was a priest at the Kashi Vishwanatha temple in Kadugodi,his brother Narasimha Murthy told police.The family obtained money by selling their property and they bought land in Mysuru,Nanjangud and other places.

Neelakanta lent the remaining money through a person named Anjaneya Reddy.He gave Rs 10 lakh to Manjunath two years ago without Reddy’s knowledge.Manjunath paid the interest for a few months,but soon the payments became irregular.

Neelakanta demanded repayment of his money from Manjunath and warned him that he would inform his wife and father-in-law about the deal.

Manjunath,a businessman,asked Neelakanta to give him some time since his business was down due to the pandemic.Neelakanta insisted that he should at least pay the interest on time.

Manjunath then in the pretext of returning money called Neelakanta to his shop and while discussing they both had a heated argument in which the accused Manjunath hited him with wicket continuously and when he fell down the accused stabbed him multiple times and killed him and then locked the shop and kept the body in the shop only for one whole day.

Next day morning he and his friend shifted the body and exhumed the priest body near Lakshmi palace in a cemented wall said by the accused in his statement but our team which has taken the case as challenging and solved the case and arrested all the accused.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated Addl CP East,S Murugan, DCP, Whitefield,D Devaraj,ACP,Manoj Kumar,PI, Narendra Kumar,PSI,Mahesh,and staff as,Mahesh,Devaraju,Prabhu Gowda,Errappa Shetty, Jagadish,Ravikumar,Gangaraju,Ganesh, Maheshwar Reddy,and Pradeep has been appreciated for the exemplary work done by the them who has detected the clueless murder case and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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The High court on tuesday refused to stay investigation into the involvement of Hemanth Nimbalkar, IPS but at the same time directed the CBI not to take coercive action against him.

The order was issued on Tuesday after Mr. Nimbalkar approached the Karnataka High court seeking quashing of FIR filed against him by the CBI.

Justice John Michael Cunha directed the Central Bureau of Investigation not to take coercive action against Nimbalkar.

The FIR filed by CBI against IMA founder and others including Mr. Nimbalkar for allegedly abetment to IMA activities while another separate FIR filed against him under Prevention of Corruption act for accepting illegal gratification in the form of electronic gadgets and other benefits to give favourable reports.

Refuting the charges Mr.Nimbalkar said that he has forwarded to his seniors which were submitted to him by his juniors.The report was not final as it has to be approved by his seniors, he said.

He further said that for the same offence two FIRs have been filed which is not permissible in the law.

Special public prosecutor P Prasanna Kumar argued that the witness and material for both the cases are entirely different.

It may be recalled that the then Assistant commissioner,LC Nagaraj facing similar charges had approached the court on the same ground and his petition has been dismissed by the court .
Moreover the CBI also assured the court that there was no proposal to arrest the accused officer but planned to concluded the investigation by April 2021.

Considering the arguments the court refused to stay investigation against Mr.Nimbalkar and directed the Investigating officer to continue investigation and file the status report in the next hearing.

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Kolar police have arrested six habitual offenders including Kaviraj associate of Ravi Pujari and cracked the kidnapping case of former MLA Varthur Prakash.

Close to a month of painstaking investigation, the Kolar police cracked kidnap case of former minister Varthur Prakash and arrested a gang of six habitual offenders.

Seemamth kumar Singh,Inspector General of police,Central range,who supervised the investigation,told reporters here that the accused Kaviraj is habitual offender having over 10 criminal cases in and around Bengaluru and Tamil Nadu.

The accused hailed from Himachal Pradesh but settled in Hosur working real estate and land broker. He formed a gang identifying people with money and abduct them to ransom.

Recently he came to know about Mr.Prakash business venture and decided to target. As per the plan,he abducted Prakash and his driver and demanded Rs 30 crore before settling it for Rs. 48 lakh.

The police who took up the investigations analyzed the CCTV footage at the coffee shop where the ransom was paid.

The police have also analysed call record details  of the accused phones zeroing in on the accused identified as S Likhith,Ullas,Manoj,Raghavendra and Praveen.

The police have also seized a bike used to get the ransom amount  two cars,lethal weapons and cash Rs. 20.5 lakh from.The accused.

The police continue massive manhunt for others accused who are on the run.Mr.Singh said that five special teams have been formed to probe the case.

Kaviraj was operating from outside and giving instructions to his associated over the phone.After his associates were arrested the police used one of the accused as bait to track down Kaviraj.

After his associate was asked by police to call him to come near Madhurai to meet him.kaviraj came to the spot but suspecting fishy he tried to escape.However the police chased him.For few kilometers in a car and arrested him.

However the associate of Kaviraj escaped from police custody.We have taken kaviraj into custody for further investigation Mr. Singh added.