DAVANAGERE:  Former minister and Davanagere South MLA Dr Shamanur Shivashankarappa on Sunday mentioned that he too is in the race for the post of CM.

Shivashankarappa said that he will be contesting the next Assembly elections from Davanagere South, which he is already representing. 

On the issue of CM Basavaraj Bommai contesting the next elections from Davanagere North, he stated, “CM Bommai is a BJP leader. Why will he discuss the issue with me? He is coming to my granddaughter’s marriage slated on April 16. Besides, I have no knowledge of him contesting the elections.”

Parmesh S Jain

The KR Puram police on Saturday arrested three persons on the charged of blackmailing a sheristadar with a private video.

The accused has been identified as,Ganapathi Nayak,Kishan and Keshavan charging them under blackmail and extortion.

Senior officer told media persons,the victim,stated in his complaint the complainant Sheristadar working in a court in Kolar was befriended by a girl on social media later they developed relationship and she invited him to her house and during meeting she recorded the private videos and passed it on to one of the associate of her gang who is threatening to make it viral and demanded Rs.25 lakhs.

Scared by this the victim approached the court and filed a complaint,based on which the police team led by PI,KR Puram and his crime team trapped the trio and probing further.The police are now on the lookout for the girl who is said to be absconding and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East,A Subramanyeswara Rao,DCP,Whitefield,Girish S,PI, Ambarish,PSI,Subramanya and other crime staff has been appreciated for the commendable and exemplary work done by them in nabbing the trio and busting the honey trap racket and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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The CCB officials on Saturday busted a App based horserace betting racket and arrested three bookies who are running the show from a house in Malleshwaram.

The accused has been identified as Harish Seshadri,40,Vikas Senoi,46 and S Raghunandan, 52,

Senior officer told media persons,CCB team led by DCP Crime-1,Dr SD Sharanappa,and his specialteam received a tip off that three persons are indulged in app based Horserace betting racket in Malleshwaram.

Based on information a team of special inquiry squad rushed to 16th cross Malleshwaram where the persons are indulged in receiving bets of Bengaluru race course race through internet.

The team raided a house and secured three persons red handed while they were busy receiving bets from the punter on the day of the horse racing on Saturday.

During investigation he confessed the crime and the team seized betting amount of Rs 5.5 lakh, laptop, 10 mobile phones from them.

A detailed investigation found that the accused are receiving the bets from punters over the phones and payment made online too.

The CCB have taken them into custody to ascertain whether they are part of the bigger racket and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant has appreciated Joint CP Crime,Raman Gupta,DCP Crime-1,Dr SD Sharanappa,and his whole team who has done commendable and exemplary work and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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The custom officials of air cargo wing foiled idol smuggling racket and recover a 15 century old lord Mahavishnu idol and arrested a antique dealer from Tamilnadu on Friday .

The idol was recovered hours before being smuggled out to Malaysia.The idol was declared as a replica of antique idols.

A senior officer said,the team while on routine check on the items,got suspicion on a consignment at the cargo bay that was scheduled to be shipped to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A close examination revealed that the package contain a three feet tall bronze statue of Lord Mahavishnu .

The officials verified the papers to find that the exporter had declared it as a newly-made bronze antique replica statue.

But as the idol had some important characteristics of an antique piece,and looked century old.The officials then secured the exporter and brought him to Bengaluru and requested the ASI team to examine the idol and certify at the cargo section airport .

The ASI team thorough examination confirmed that the bronze statue is indeed an antique piece and the statue could be from the 15 century Vijayanagara period .

The expert said that the idol polished and modified to look like a new piece. Based on the finding the dealer was arrested and booked under various sections of the customs act and the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act .

The accused was produced before a magistrate in the city on Saturday who remanded him to judicial custody,while officials are investigating further to ascertain if the accused was part of bigger network and the source of the idol.

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The State government has approved the Rs.134 cr Devatkal Lift Irrigation project,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

The Chief Minister, Basavaraj Bommai in his address after launching a slew of development works at Devatkal village in Surapur Taluk of Yadagiri District said,Irrigation projects which would benefit Yadagiri and Vijayapura districts would be taken up.

Irrigation facility would be provided for 44,000 acres in Yadagiri through Narayanapura,Bunala and other projects.It has been made possible by intense efforts of local MLA Raju Gowda.

Various programmes and projects have been announced in the recent budget for the all round development of Yadagiri district which include an Ayush Hospital,Yadagiri bypass road, grants for Gadagavadi Railway project, a Food Park and Pharmaceutical Park, Bommai said.

Village Stay

The Chief Minister announced a special grant of Rs.1 Cr as a mark of Revenue minister R Ashok’s Grama Vastavya(Village Stay) here. He assured grants for Grama Vastavya villages for their all round development.

Kalyana Karnataka

Many programmes have been drawn up for the development of Kalyana Karnataka region, a grant of Rs.3000 cr was fixed for the development of the region.

The entire amount would be utilised this year itself. We have resolved to make the State Kalyana Karnataka with cooperation from the Union government, Bommai said.

Ours is a pro-farmer government with programmes to provide farm loans for 33 lakh farmers, Raitha Shakthi to bear their cost of petrol and diesel for their machinery, grant of Rs.300 cr for Yashasvini programme to provide health cover for farmers, Upper Krishna, Mahadayi, Tungabhadra,Mekedatu and other major irrigation projects would be taken up, he said.

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NCB officials on Friday busted an inter-state drug racket and seized unauthorised re-export of 25,000 kg of Tramadol (Psychotropic Substance) to Pakistan.

The officials also arrested a Managing Director and four senior executives of the company for further investigations.

Based on a tip off,a team of NCB,Bengaluru Zonal Unit headed by zonal director Amith Ghawate , searched the premises of Lucent Drugs Pvt Ltd, a pharma company in Sanga Reddy District, Hyderabad which was into manufacturing of Integrated API and Intermediates and one of the key exporters of Tramadol.

This pharma company was allotted with URN (Unique registration Number) for consumption of Acetic Anhydride. 

During raid the team detected unauthorised re-export of Tramadol to Pakistan by this pharma company to the tune of 25000 kg in a year and discrepancy pertaining to the declared stock of Acetic Anhydride to the extent of around 3.85 kg.

During the course of investigation, documentary and digital evidence revealed that, the company re-exported Tramadol to Pakistan and innovated the channel of exporting Tramadol to Denmark, Germany and Malaysia and re-exporting the same to Pakistan without any valid permission for it. 

The company had suppressed the ultimate destination to Pakistan .

The accused have obtained NOC for export of Tramadol to Denmark,Germany and Malaysia only and not to Pakistan.

They have re-exported 25000 kg Tramadol to Pakistan without any valid permission during the year 2021,the probe revealed .

During physical verification of declared stock of Acetic Anhydride in the factory
premises, it was found that there is a shortage of 3.85 kg of Acetic Anhydride as compared to the declared stock.

There was discrepancy in the declared stock in the legally mandatory returns to NCB and actual stock of Acetic Anhydride.  

In this connection Managing Director,Associate Vice President,and 3 more concerned employees of the said company were arrested on Friday and remanded to Judicial Custody for violation of RCS order 2013 and NDPS Act . Further investigation is in progress .

Tramadol opioid medication has long been reported to be diverted from its intended usage as a prescription medication and there is an increase in diversion for illicit use.

Recreational use of high doses of Tramadol is associated with an increased risk of seizures or convulsion.

Acetic Anhydride a precursor/controlled substance, is an important reaction agent for the illicit production of heroin  

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In a swift action, the CCB officials rescued a 33-year-old autorikshaw driver and arrested a gang of nine person who were planning to kill the victim and discussing on where to dispose the body on Friday.

The accused has been identified as, associates of Rowdy Sheeter Mani who is in Parapanna Agrahara jail.

Senior officer told reporters,victim brother filed a complaint in RMC yard police station stating that his brother is missing from Yeshwanthpur railway auto stand.

Immediately the crime team swung into action and found that he was kidnapped by a gang armed with lethal weapons.

Based on instructions by senior officer CCB police swung into action and visited the crime scene and with the help of technical inputs the team tracked the vicitm to Laggere in Peenya.

CCB team swung into action and rescued the vicitm safely by arresting 9 persons involved the crime.

During investigation by the team it was revealed that,The victim,DV Girish,resident of Peenya was abducted by Vinay and his associates on the behest of Mahalakshmi Layout rowdy sheeter Mani who is monitoring the operation sitting inside the prison.

According to the police Mani was arrested by the Srirampura police in 2017 for killing his rival Andros,a rowdy from Srirampura and since then lodged in central prison of Parappana Agarahara.

Mani came to know that Girish used to pick and drop Mani’s wife Rashmi to work and suspected illicit relationship between them.

Mani directed his associates to abduct and eliminate Girish, ollowing which his associates led by Vinay abducted Girish from Yeshwanthpura railway station,took him to one of the associate house in Laggere in Peenya and kept him with hands and legs tied and mouth gagged on March 17 and was rescued safely from their clutches.

The accused were waiting for Mani’s signal to kill and dispose the body when the CCB raided and rescued Girish.

The police also recovered lethal weapons,eight mobile phones,autorickshaw and a bike from them and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Joint CP Crime,Raman Gupta,DCP,Dr SD Sharanappa and his whole team who nabbed the culprits before any big plans of them to kill the vicitm a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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The State government would make all efforts for development of Kalyana Karnataka region, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Speaking to media persons at Devatkal Helipad in Surapur taluk he said, Rs.3000 cr grant has been provided for Kalyana Karnataka Development Board.

A separate sectoral grant has been provided for Education, Health and Malnutrition. Apart from this grants need to be provided under Special Development Plan in accordance with the Nanjundappa report, Bommai said.

Development works of over Rs.1000 cr are being launched in Yadgir district today. Solatium would be paid to the families of those who lost their lives in the recent cylinder blast incident. I have come here to initiate development works, Bommai said.

Replying to a question Bommai said, inclusion of Bhagavad Gita in school curriculum is being considered as part of the moral education.

A decision in this regard would be taken after discussing the issue with the Education minister.

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The South Division police of CK Achukattu police on Saturday arrested three persons and recovered 27 kgs of two elephant tusks which they were trying to sell .

The accused has been identified as,Chandregowda,46,Praveen Guled,24 and Somalingappa Kodad,41 are from Hassan and Haveri were suspected to be part of the poachers gang.

Senior officer told media persons,the CK Achukattu police inspector recieved a credible information from his reliable inputs that three persons in car are found to be suspicious and are trying to elephant tusk.

After getting information PI,Janardhan PR passed information to his senior officers,a team led by DCP South, Harish Pandey,under the leadership of PI,Janardhan PR and his crime team rushed to 7th main BSK third stage and surrounded the area and kept a close watch on all the trio.

After getting doubt on their suspicious behaviour the inspector and his team approached them and questioned for whom they are waiting at the same time they intercepted the car and found elephant tusks in their possession the team secured them immediately and took them to station.

They caught the accused red handed while they were waiting in a car to deliver the tusks.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and the accused are identified as, Chandregowda,46,Praveen Guled,24 and Somalingappa Kodad, 41 are from Hassan and Haveri were suspected to be part of the poachers gang.

It is suspected that they had killed the elephant from a reserve forest range in and around Hassan .

Going by the seize of the tusks the animal is easily 60 to 70 yr old and the tusk length is more than 5.5 ft, the police , said .

The trio have been booked under various sections of Wildlife protection act and are investigating further.

Finally Bengaluru police commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP South,Harish Pandey,ACP,BL Srinivasmurthy,PI,Janardhan PR,PSI,Manoj Kumar DS,Probationary PSI,Mahesh Kudhri,and crime staff as,Sridhar TR,Raju HP,Srinivas M, Nagaraj Nayak,Siddappa Bangiyavar,Veerendra N,Shivputtegowda,Manjunath S,Hanumantha Sandhi,Santhosh S,Mallikarjun,Hanumanthappa Talavar and others has been appreciated for the commendable job done by them in nabbing trio poachers smugglers and recovered elephant tusks a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

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Atleast eight people were killed and 25 others injured when an overcrowded private bus heading towards Tumakuru turned turtle on Saturday morning.

The bus driver was reportedly speeding and lost control of the wheel while negotiating a curve at Palavalli Katte near Pavagada in Tumakuru district.

The bus was heading to Pavadada from Hosakote with more than 80 passengers on board, said traffic police.

What compounded the tragedy was that it was over-crowded with people hanging out of the doors,clinging on to the ladder at the back and sitting on its roof.

When the bus turned turtle, they were flung out into the thorny bushes along the road,the police added.

Most of the passengers in the bus were students or people going to work.

The driver and the conductor escaped soon after the accident. One of the passengers travelling in the bus called his relatives in the nearby village to alert them.

Soon after, villagers arrived at the spot and shifted the injured to Pavagada, Tumakuru and other hospitals in Bengaluru. Both the driver and the conductor who survived in the accident fled the scene.

Home minister araga Jnanendra who is also the district incharge minister ordered for a detailed probe on the incident.

Expressing grief over the incident, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu in a tweet said, “Deeply anguished to hear about the loss of lives in a bus accident in Tumkur, Karnataka. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families. Prayers for the speedy recovery of the injured.

Saddened over the news,BJP leader P Muralidhar Rao tweeted,My heart goes to the families who have lost their loved ones due to bus accident at Pavagada, Karnataka.

I pray for the speedy recovery of those who are injured.

It is not the first time that the state has reported a fatal accident. In 2018, at least 30 passengers were killed after a bus plunged into a canal in the Mandya district of Karnataka.

The incident happened at the VC canal of the Cauvery river in Kanaganamaradi village of the Pandavapura taluk. Most of the deceased were school students.

Meanwhile, the Comptroller Auditor General of India (CAG) for 2020-21 released a report on March 16, saying that the roads in Bengaluru city are far more dangerous than state and national highways in Karnataka he added.