The party also announced Praveen Peter as the candidate for the forthcoming biennial elections for the legislative council from Bangalore Teachers constituency

BENGALURU: The Congress on Saturday night announced its second list of party candidates for six assembly segments for the December 5 bypolls. Earlier, the party had announced candidates for eight seats, and is yet to announce its candidate for Yeshwanpur assembly segment in Bengaluru.

MLC Rizwan Arshad, who had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Bengaluru Central, will be the party candidate from Shivajinagar assembly segment.

Raju Kage, the former BJP MLA who joined Congress earlier this week, will be the party candidate from Kagwad. G B Mangasuli will be the party candidate from Athani, and Lakhan Jarkiholi will contest from Gokak against BJP Ramesh Jarkiholi. Venkatrao Ghorpade will contest from Vijayanagar and KB Chandrasekhar will contest from KR Pet.

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In a major breakthrough, Central Crime Branch sleuths busted a gang that produced forged property documents as sureties to secure the release of several undertrials. They arrested five persons, including two women, and lawyer who were part of the gang that had been operating in and around Bengaluru for the past six years.
The accused has been identified as,J Madhu Kumar,37,of Hessaraghatta,R
Rathnamma,46,Rama Devi alias Rupa,40, both from Pavagada in Tumakuru and Narasimha Murthy alias Basava Kumar,27,of Chitradurga.Ratnamma is the main accused. The police first caught one of the accused while he was communicating to a client about providing fake surety and this led to the arrest of the rest of the gang.
The fake surety racket came to light when the court has directed police commissioner to probe the sureties Noticing summons and warrants returning as wrong addresses, who asked the CCB cops to probe the matter.
The probe was conducted under the supervision of Joint Commissioner of 
Police,Crime,Sandeep Patil,DCP,Crime,Kuldeep R Jain,and ACP,Venugopal.
The investigation team comprised Senior Inspector,Hazarish killadar,and other staff. The CCB cops busted the gang in a case last year a Foreign national was able to obtain a bail. The cops started finding as to who would be able to provide surety for their bails.
That’s when the cop found out about the gang who used to forge property
documents in the names of people who are actually dead. Joint Commissioner of Police CCB,Sandeep Patil,said,One major fake surety case busted by CCB. Accused impersonate other people,forge land records,ID cards and give surety in Court. Accused in many sensitive cases got bail by this means.4 accused with one lawyer who was part of the gang has been arrested 2 fake seal of Village Accountant and Land records of various people,Aadhar cards seized. All the accused were produced before court and has been remanded to 10 days.
police custody.And Further investigation is on Said by Sandeep Patil.


 













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BENGALURU: The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways recently issued guidelines for setting up an Authorised Vehicle Scrapping Facility. The draft guidelines have been uploaded on the ministry’s website and the draft has been sent to the respective states’ transport departments, including Karnataka, and it accepted changes and suggestions till November 15. All businesses that set up such a facility will have to meet the minimum requirements according to the guidelines issued by the KSPCB or Central Board.
Vehicles that can be scrapped include those that are more than 15 years old and those seized. All vehicles — commercial and private — will be included under these guidelines.

“As of now, we do not have any additional suggestions to add to the guidelines and we may go ahead with it,” said Additional Commissioner of Transport Hemant Kumar.

New companies that set up such facilities will also have to get a NoC from the KSPCB and will have to submit the same to the Transport Ministry as well.

 Come December 2, Rohan Murty, the son of Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy and Infosys Foundation Chairperson Sudha Murty, will wed Aparna Krishnan in the city. 

BENGALURU:  Come December 2, Rohan Murty, the son of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy and Infosys Foundation Chairperson Sudha Murty, will wed Aparna Krishnan in the city. The wedding will be a simple ceremony in the presence of family and close friends, followed by a reception. The couple have known each other for about three years, and met through a mutual friend, according to sources. 

Aparna is the daughter of Savithri Krishnan, a retired SBI employee, and Commander KR Krishnan, a former Indian Navy officer. While she completed her initial schooling here, she went to Canada for the next level of education — high school.  She has studied economics at Dartmouth College, US. 

Now a resident of Bengaluru, Aparna is known to have worked in McKinsey and Sequoia Capital.Rohan has a Ph.D in Computer Science from Harvard University and is a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows of the university. He established the Murty Classical Library of India whose goal is to present the greatest literary works of India from the past two millennia to the largest readership in the world.

Sarvagna Nagar MLA KJ George said that all his assets were legal and declared before the Lokayukta, Income Tax Department and the Election Commission.

BENGALURU:  The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Bengaluru zonal unit, is examining allegations of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) violation against senior Congress leader and Sarvajnanagar MLA KJ George.

This follows a complaint by Karnataka Rashtra Samithi (KRS) president Ravi Krishna Reddy. “The ED will register a case against George under FEMA only if there is evidence against him,” said sources who are privy to the development. On his part, George has rubbished Reddy’s charges against him as “baseless.” 

Speaking to TNIE, the Congress MLA said that all his assets were legal and declared before the Lokayukta, Income Tax Department and the Election Commission. “If any of these agencies seek any clarification from me, I will submit my reply. Since Reddy has filed the complaint with the ED, he should allow the agency to verify the charges. Why is he going to media for publicity? The ED has not issued any notice to me so far. I have nothing to hide,” George asserted.

Meanwhile, Reddy told TNIE that in September this year, they had submitted a detailed complaint to the ED against George with several annexures of his alleged properties outside India as proof. On November 11, Reddy wrote another letter to the ED to take prompt action against the Congress MLA under FEMA.
“George has held key portfolios in the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government and the previous Congress-JDS coalition government. He has amassed huge properties in India and abroad, particularly in New York,” he alleged.

He said that in his complaint to the ED, he has given a detailed description of properties held by George and his family. “Most of the properties are in the name of George’s daughter Renita Abraham and son-in-law Kevin Abraham,” Reddy claimed.George countered this stating that his daughter is an American citizen. “The Government of India can seek information from the US government about their assets,” he said.

 What was once a black spot and dumping ground has now been turned into a serene green space for senior citizens in Domlur.

BENGALURU:  What was once a black spot and dumping ground has now been turned into a serene green space for senior citizens in Domlur. It took the residents and the authorities two long years to transform this space into the Ajja-Ajji (grandfather-grandmother) Park.

Dr Hemant Kumar Agarwal, a paediatrician and the man who initiated the cleanliness drive, said, “Eight years ago, this spot was a cesspool of diseases. BBMP used it as a garbage dump. I tried creating awareness among residents.”

It was only after the residents teamed up with the NGO The Ugly Indian that the garbage dump started taking the shape of an urban park.

BBMP and the Resident Welfare Association then joined hands to make a green lung space.

Domlur Corporator Lakshmi Narayan C R said, “The road was once inhabited by rodents, dogs and cows that fed on garbage. Now it has been transformed into a beautiful park, which elderly citizens can use.”

A representative of The Ugly Indian said, “The Ajja-Ajji park is one of the best examples of how residents and authorities can come together to convert a dirty trash dump into a lung space. The park is properly lit at night too.”

Balasubrahmani G, a resident, said, “The park is a peaceful place now. My wife and I go there to spend our evenings without being bothered by traffic.”

Waste disposal in the ward has been addressed too. Madhumathi G, a homemaker and a resident, said, “Earlier, people in the area openly dumped their garbage in this spot. But now, we have a proper waste disposal method where the auto tippers collect garbage regularly. Organic waste and animal manure are used as compost for the plants.”

A group of seven person has been arrested in Bengaluru by Yeshwanthpur police for their pranks,which the residents alleged could have turned dangerous in night time. Donning white gowns,wigs and red paint resembling blood,the members of the group had dressed like “ghosts”and went around scaring people on the intervening night of Sunday Monday in Sharieffnagar area of Yeshwanthpur,police said.
The Yeshwanthpur police rushed to the spot and caught,Shaan Malik,20,Naveed, 20,Saji Mohammed,21,Sakib,20,Syed Nabil,20,Yusif Ahmed,20,all residents of RT Nagar and Mohammed Ayub,20,a resident of Nagawara,and brought them to the police station. The
accused are students of city colleges. The police said the accused made prank videos and uploaded them on social media for attraction. As per the plan,one of the accused,wearing a long white kurta and a wig and splashing red paint on his shirt to make it look like blood,started confronting motorists,pedestrians and people sleeping on pavements,and created panic for some time. The police said the pranks had turned into a menace as many residents in north Bengaluru were scared.

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Investigation revealed that they would upload these videos on YouTube under the title ‘Ghost Prank in Bengaluru’. They tried to scare people the same way early on Monday when they were caught.
DCP,North,N Shashikumar told reporters,last night around 2.30 am, we received a complaint from the Yeshwanthpur area Sharieffnagar residents saying a group of people were pranking the pedestrians and troubling them in the region. Based on complaint,Yeshwanthpur inspector and his crime staff rushed to the spot and detained all the seven and we have arrested seven of them.After all the legal procedures.He even said that even though they were only pranking the people,but the way they portrayed themselves as ghosts in the middle of the night was dangerous.What if they had tried to stop a two-wheeler that was moving on high speed? There could have been an accident,DCP said.

We questioned them to ascertain the motive and later summoned their parents to the station.The accused were made to give an undertaking and let off on bail after a stern warning.The accused had even tried to scare the police personnel in mufti without realising that they had come to secure their custody,Mr.Shashi Kumar said.

Agency raided 15 locations of officers and IMA entities and found incriminating documents and digital evidences

BENGALURU: In another huge embarrassment to the state bureaucracy, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided the residential premises of two serving senior IPS officers – Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Additional Commissioner of Police (Administration) Hemant Nimbalkar and Superintendent and Commandant, State Reserve Police, 1st Battalion Ajay Hilori in the alleged multi-crore I Monetary Advisory (IMA) ponzi scheme. The CBI had earlier searched the residence and official premises of Additional Director General of Police and former Bengaluru city police commissioner Alok Kumar in the illegal phone tapping scam.

The CBI raided 15 locations of officers and IMA entities and recovered “various incriminating documents, property documents, material objects and digital evidences in an ongoing investigation of a scam”, a CBI official said.

Besides Nimbalkar and Hilori, CBI sleuths conducted searches at the premises of suspended IAS officer and former deputy commissioner, Bengaluru Urban, B M Vijay Shankar; former assistant commissioner, Bengaluru North subdivision, L C Nagaraj; former chief engineer, Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA), P D Kumar; and former village accountant, Bengaluru North subdivision, Manjunath. The CBI also raided the premises of former deputy SP, Criminal Investigation Department (CID), E B Sridhara; then police inspector and station house officer, Commercial Street, M Ramesh; and former sub inspector, Commercial Street, Gowri Shankar.  

The CBI has conducted searches at 15 locations – 11 in Bengaluru; one each in Mandya, Ramanagara, and Belagavi districts and one in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.Nimbalkar was then IGP, Economic Offences Wing, CID, and Hilori was posted as DCP Bengaluru (East) then.  

The CBI stated: “These public servants had conducted inquiries against the IMA Group entities, furnished favourable reports and given clean chits to them. As a result, no action was allegedly initiated against IMA and the fraud continued unhindered due to the clean chit reports given by these officers despite the fact that the Reserve Bank of India had repeatedly flagged the issue about unauthorised collections and raising of deposits by IMA during the State Level Coordination Committee (SLCC) meetings and had also written several letters to various authorities in Karnataka.”

Based on these letters from RBI, inquiries were conducted through these officers. “They allegedly failed in their duties in pointing out the glaring irregularities committed by the IMA, and gave clean chits. Investigation into the expenditure statements of IMA revealed the alleged payments of huge bribe amounts on multiple occasions by the founder and managing director Mohammed Mansoor Khan and other IMA directors to these officials,” the CBI spokesperson added.

The CBI had registered a case on August 30 in the IMA scam on the request of the state government and further notification from the Centre. The case was earlier being investigated by Karnataka Special Investigation Team.

Mansoor and other IMA entities had illegally collected deposits from the public in the form of investments on various ponzi schemes with a promise of getting high returns. Most of the deposits were allegedly misappropriated by Mansoor and other IMA entities for acquiring assets on their personal names and names of family members. “The accused have allegedly paid huge bribes to public servants and others as protection money to carry out their illegal activities,” the officer added.

The main demand of the students remains that those accused be arrested or appropriate action be taken against them.

BENGALURU: In continuation with the strike that began on Saturday, junior doctors of Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI) working at Minto Eye Hospital boycotted Out Patient Department services after one of their female colleagues was allegedly assaulted by members of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike. On Friday, members of the pro-Kannada outfit came in to demand for compensation for a patient who lost his sight after an eye surgery went wrong, owing to the use of a contaminated drug. Later, they allegedly began assaulting her because she could not speak Kannada.

“Our colleague was not even the person responsible for the surgery. Moreover, she is not from Karnataka. What kind of impression does it give about Bengaluru or Karnataka when we assault outsiders, especially a doctor who was just doing her job?” complained Dr Savitha, one of the doctors on strike.The main demand of the students remains that those accused be arrested or appropriate action be taken against them. A protest is likely to take place on Monday morning as well.

“We have reservation for only 50 percent of the seats for Kannadigas. The rest are people from other states who come after writing NEET. What if Kannadigas went to study and practice outside the state and they are attacked for not knowing the language?” demanded Doddabasappa, another doctor.

A male colleague who tried filming the incident was allegedly assaulted as well.

“There is a procedure to complain if any patient has an issue. They should approach the right authority,” Dr Savitha added.Speaking at an event on Sunday, Deputy Chief Minister and Medical Education Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan said,” I have asked police to take action against the perpetrators. I urge the doctors to return to work as patients should not be affected. Necessary security will be provided to doctors.”

Manuchandra, the head of the Bengaluru chapter, pointed out that marine life was the worst affected due to plastic and very soon there will be a shortage of seafood in the city.

BENGALURU: In order to reduce the amount of plastic waste generated by the city, the Bengaluru Chapter of the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) will promote the use of eco-friendly products in city’s restaurants.

NRAI is creating awareness among restaurants to use paper bags, reed or bamboo straws, bagasse containers and glass bottles. “Bengaluru is the fourth-largest generator of plastic in the country. Many restaurants in the city can bring about change. We are asking restaurants to start using bagasse, the leftover fibre after the extraction of the juice from sugarcane, which is eco-friendly,” said Prakash Pandey, NRAI member and director of Byg Brewski Brewing Company.

Manuchandra, the head of the Bengaluru chapter, pointed out that marine life was the worst affected due to plastic and very soon there will be a shortage of seafood in the city.

More than 3,000 restaurateurs joined hands to clean up Koramangla and Indiranagar on Sunday. The team collected 754 bags of plastic waste and 874 bags of other waste. Even elected representatives like MLAs N A Harris and Ramlinga Reddy were a part of the exercise.

The NRAI has also made posters to create awareness to use eco-friendly products and they gave these posters to restaurants. “We are spreading in the message by making posters. At TOIT restaurant, we have started using smaller glasses as many people only drink half a glass of water and they waste the rest,” said Mukesh Tolani, director of TOIT.