Parmesh S JAIN

The Gouribidanur police on Saturday arrested a 29-year-old woman who got her first boyfriend killed through her second boyfriend and made it look like accidental death in November last year.

The police who have taken up a case of accidental death and Post-mortem report revealed that actual cause of death.

Based on the PM report the police taken up a case and zeroed in on M Pavithra and her boy friend Rishab Mittal and his company driver Shambhulinga,charging them under murder .

Senior officer told reporters,Pavithra,married with two children working as sales executive in a steel company in Gouribidanur.

She had an affair with her colleague P Prasanna Kumar and the latter starting having an affair with Rishab Mittal,who was her senior and worked as quality manager at the company.

Prasanna came to know that Pavithra is cheating him and used to have frequent fights with her .

Enraged by this,Pravithra sought the help of Rishab who agreed to help her get rid of Prasanna.

As per the plan,Rishab called Prasanna on the pretext of talk about work and strangulated him to death at the company godown.

The accused later directed Shambulinga and others to carry the body in a goods vehicle and dump on the road to make it look like accidental death.

Parmesh S JAIN

The Kamakshipalya police on Saturday arrested 40 year old bike lifter and recovered 10 scooters worth Rs 5.2 lakh from him.

The accused has been identified as,Srinivasa, resident of CB Pura in Gubbi Taluk.

Senior officer told reporters,Based on a bike theft complaint, the kamakshipalya police inspector, Prashanth M and his crime staff visited the crime scene and after analysing the CCTV footage a special team was pressed into action.

Based on local intelligence and technical inputs the team tracked down the bike lifter.

During investigation the accused has been identified as Srinivasa,a resident of CB pura and based on his statement the team recovered 10 scooters from his possession

A detailed investigation by the team it was revealed that he would target only TVS XL scooters as he did not know how to ride gear bikes,the police said.

Explaining the modus Operandi,the police said that the accused would come to city by bus carrying hand-held hammer and a crow bar .

He would move around the city to identify parked scooters.He would watch the scooter for sometime and then would break the lock using hammer and crow bar and ride back to his home town .

The accused would then sell the stolen scooters to his contacts who would in turn sell it to the people in rural areas.

The police are now tracking down the owner of the vehicles based on the registration number of the vehicle to handover them.

A case has been registered in Kamakshipalya police station and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,then ACP, Nanjundegowda,PI,Prashanth M,PSI,Murthy and their crime staff who has done a commendable job in nabbing the notorious bike lifter and a suitable reward will be given to whole team he added.

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The Yelahanka police on Saturday arrested six persons and two juveniles for sexually assaulting a minor girl repeatedly after blackmailing her with a video which they had recorded during the act.

Senior officer told reporters,The incident had taken place in the limits of Yelahanka police station in Bengaluru.

It came to light after the parents of the victim persuaded her to reveal what happened to her as she came home crying.The mother of the victim then lodged a complaint with Yelahanka police on April 5.

Based on the complaint the police track down the accused and arrested six of them while two juveniles have been taken into custody.

During investigation it was revealed that the main accused had sexually assaulted the victim and made a video of the incident.

After the assault,he had threatened the victim to kill her if she chose to tell anyone about it.Later, he shared the video with his friends.

Blackmailing the girl again that the video would be made viral on social media,the main accused along with his seven friends gang raped her.

A case has been registered in Yelahanka police station and hunt is on for the another accused and further investigation is on.

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Self pride is the hallmark of Dr. BR Ambedkar. People of all communities should strive to uplift the oppressed classes,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Bommai in his address after unveiling a statue of Ambedkar in Basavakalyan said, oppressed classes have a prominent role in building a new Karnataka.

State government would formulate welfare programmes that would reward the sweat and toil of these classes.

All pervasive and all inclusive Constitution

BR Ambedkar is a precious gem of our country. He has gifted an all pervasive and all inclusive Constitution for the country.

If India has remained as one nation with such diversities in culture, religion and caste, the credit should go to Dr Ambedkar, Bommai said.

There is similarity in thoughts of Ambedkar and Basavanna.They both propagated the principles of equality and tried to eradicate untouchability. He has incorporated all the ideals of Basavanna in the Constitution, Bommai said.

Three objectives

“Our government is aware of the ideals of Ambedkar.We are working to fulfill three objectives of-education,empowerment and employment.

Maximum allocation has been made for the welfare of the weaker sections in the budget. About Rs.35,000 cr has been provided for the welfare of SC,ST communities.

The communities should make good use of the funds and get economically empowered, Bommai said.

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Bengaluru schools receive bomb threat: The threat was in emails that came between 11 am and 11.10 am, purportedly from the US.

Multiple private schools in Bengaluru,mostly in the East and Southeastern parts of the city, received bomb threats via email around 11:10 am. triggering panic.

City Police and Bomb Disposal Squads rushed to the spot and conducted search at all the premises of these schools.

They completed operations at all the schools,which have been declared free of any danger.

The email is mostly a hoax.But we are taking it seriously and not leaving anything to chance, said,Kamal Pant commissioner of Bengaluru.

Police team started the drill and evacuated all the schools that received the threat.

A few schools were conducting exams.Parents were asked to come and pick up the children. Police officials ensured that exams were not disturbed,senior officials said.

Our teams are still searching every nook and crevice of these schools. We will not be able to confirm if it is a hoax or not until the investigation and search are complete,” said a senior police official

The schools that have received the threatening emails are:Delhi Public School,Sulakunte; Gopalan International School,Mahadevapura; New Academy School,Marathahalli;Ebenezer International School,Electronics City;St Vincent Pallotti School,Hennur; and Indian Public School, Govindapura.

Similar emails were also sent to the management of Ebenezer International School in Huskur in Hebbagodi police station limits,Redbridge International Academy on Begur-Koppa Road, and Candor International School on Koppa Road, both in Bannerghatta police station limits, in Bengaluru Rural district.

Teams of officials as local police and intelligence department is conducting investigation to trace the source of the email.

The email to all the schools read:A very powerful bomb has been planted in your school,attention is not a joke,this is not a joke,a very powerful bomb has been planted in your school, immediately call the police and sappers, hundreds of lives may suffer, including yours,do not delay,now everything is only in your hands!

Parmesh S JAIN

City based social activist has filed a complaint against Chandru Moger,co-ordinator of Hindu Jagruthi Samithi for spreading communal hatred on social media .

Zia Nomani,the complainant said that Chandru took to the Twitter and urged hindu community members to buy fruits only from the hindu fruit vendors and to end the monopoly of muslim in fruit business .

Chandru claimed that muslim traders spit on the fruits and bread they sell and termed it as spitting jihad.

Such statement are threat to national integrity and comment like this promote religious fundamentalism and fanatacisim.

Such statement of Chandru promote communal hatred and threat to social fabric of the society, he said and submitted video links and links of the news on his statement to the police,demanding action.

The events were made with a deliberate malicious intentions to harm and damage and attract penal action under section 153 A is to punish persons who indulge in wanting vilification or attacks upon the religion,race,place of birth,residence,language of any particular group or class or upon the founders and prophets of a religion.

The Sanjay Nagar police have taken up the complaint and seeking legal opinion to registering an FIR against Moger.

Under Section 499 (defamation) section 506 (criminal intimidation) and section 505 (makes, publishes or circulates any statement or report containing rumour or alarming news with intent to create or promote, or which is likely to create or promote, on grounds of religion,race, place of birth, residence, language, caste or community or any other ground whatsoever,feelings of enmity, hatred) of the Indian penal code.

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Claiming that the Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra,had incited communal hatred over the murder of a youngster in Bengaluru,the Congress party on Wednesday filed a complaint against the Home Minister and BJP General Secretary CT Ravi.

Home minister Araga Jnanendra in trouble as members of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee on Wednesday filed a complaint against him for issuing provocative statement to spread wong message which could lead to communal disturbance in the society.

Reacting to the murder case reported in JJ nagar, Mr. Jnanendra said that a dalit youth was repeatedly stabbed to death as he could not speak urdu.

This is totally false and the police clarified that the murder was due to road rage.

This statement is uncalled for as being in responsible position his statement has put the muslim community in wrong side .

Even bjp leader CT Ravi reiterating Home minister statement to put the blame entirely on muslim community, is unpardonable.

The statement made by home minister amount to contempt of court and also derail the ongoing police investigation.

This is a serious offence which attract penal action,hence Mr.Jnanendra should be arrested under appropriate sections of IPC,general secretary,Y Puttaraju,who led the delegation and submitted the complaint to Malleshwaram police, said.

The police have forwarded the conplaint to senior officials and awaiting their opinion on this .

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Kochi :Sources close to KV Thomas have indicated to our correspondent that he will attend a seminar at the CPI (M) party convention in Kannur.

KV Thomas,who was mentally estranged from Delhi and the Kerala leadership,had recently taken a stand in favor of the Left Front.

He feels that the Congress-Central leadership has severely neglected and insulted KV Thomas in the last Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.

Although KV Thomas arrived in Delhi to secure a seat in Kerala in the Rajya Sabha elections which were finally vacated, the central leadership refused to meet him.

KV Thomas is very sad and disappointed in this.KV Thomas,who was invited to a seminar at the CPI party congress,wrote a letter to the Congress-Party seeking permission but Sonia did not give permission.

KV Thomas,who was disappointed that Sonia Gandhi’s permission was not obtained, remained silent.

KV Thomas will announce his future plans to the media at 11 a.m.today at his home in Thopumpady.

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Statements made by Al-Qaeda chief on hijab row lend credence to the suspicion that ‘unseen hands’ were working to provoke youngsters in the state, Karnataka home minister Araga Jnanendra said on Wednesday.

In an 8.43-minute video clip released by As-Sahab,the official media wing of terror outfit Al-Qaeda, chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri showered praises on Karnataka college student Muskan Khan for shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ slogans to counter a group of boys who were chanting ‘Jai Shree Ram’ in her college early February.

Muskan’s actions were seen as one of the flashpoints of the hijab controversy.

We have been saying this from the beginning, and the High Court too during the hijab verdict had suggested the possibility of some unseen hands behind the hijab row.

Now it is proved, because Al-Qaeda people are now releasing videos,Jnanendra said, in response to a question on Zawahiri praising Muskaan.

How things are happening, what is the link. All these things are being looked into by the police,they will find out,” he added.

Jnanendra said that intelligence agencies were now investigating further to prove the link and that the Union and state home departments were monitoring the developments.

Condemning the statement by a terror group about the internal matters,higher education minister C N Ashwath Narayan said,Action will be taken against organisations and people linked to them”.

Meanwhile,distancing himself from the video statement,Muskan’s father termed the comments of the terror outfit’s leader as “wrong” and said he and his family were living peacefully in India.

Noting that such incidents are disturbing the peace,he said the police and state government can initiate an inquiry to ascertain the truth.

We don’t know anything about it (video),we don’t know who he is.I saw him today for the first time. He has said something in Arabic.We are all living here with love and trust like brothers,” Mohammad Hussain Khan told reporters in response to a question on Zawahiri’s video.

Queried on Zawahiri praising Muskan, he said, “People say whatever they want,this is unnecessarily causing trouble.

We are living peacefully in our country.We don’t want him to talk about us,as he is not related to us,it is wrong. It is an attempt to create division among us.”

In the video, Al-Zawahiri stated that Indian Muslims should “react to this oppression”.

We must shake off the delusions that confound us.We must stop being deceived by the mirage of the pagan Hindu democracy of India,which,to begin with,was never more than a tool to oppress Muslims,” said Zawahiri.

The hijab controversy first started at a government school in the Udupi district when six students were barred from entering classrooms because of wearing hijab.

A petition was then filed in the Karnataka high court, challenging the Udupi Government PU College’s decision.

A full bench, headed by chief justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, on March 15 held that Quran does not mandate the wearing of hijab for Muslim women and that the attire “at the most is a means to gain access to public places” and a “measure of social security”, but “not a religious end in itself” in its 129-page judgment.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assigned various tasks for the party leaders and he has instructed development of 75 lakes in the State.

A special programme for development of lakes in Kolar would be launched under the leadership of Modi,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Speaking to media persons in New Delhi Bommai said,Prime Minister Modi addressed the party leaders and booth level workers as part of BJP’s Foundation Day celebrations.

I too participated in the programme and later met Union Finance minister Nirmala Seetharaman. I sought Finance Department approval for declaring the Upper Bhadra project as a National Project.

She informed me that the process is in its final stage.The issue of including 3 Energy department projects in the Green Corridor too are coming before the Finance ministry for approval.
The minister has responded positively to the request,Bommai said.

The issues related to the GST Group of Ministers too came up for discussion.The Finance minister has said that she will visit Karnataka.

She has assured that she would convene a special meeting to address the issues related to Central projects which need to be taken up through the banks.

We have also decided to organise a conclave of Millet Farmers in Raichur on the occasion of International Millets Day,Bommai said.

I am trying to get an appointment to meet BJP National President JP Nadda and I am expecting to meet him today evening or tonight,Bommai said.