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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.

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The Wilson garden police registered a case against former BBMP councillor Dhanaraj for abusing and threatening a woman shop keeper over a trivial row on Monday.

Based on the complaint filed by Pooja Agarwal, 40 year old the police registered an FIR against  Dhanraj,charging him with criminal intimidation and trespass .

In her complaint Pooja said,Dhanraj who was former councillor for Dharmarayaswamy temple ward in chickpete came to her shop selling hardware products and asked for particular brand of pipes.

Pooja, was in the shop situated on Lalbagh road  KS garden along with her father in law,Sawarmal Agarwal,67,when Dhanraj visited the shop at around 2 pm.

As soon as she gave the price quotation,Dhanraj began to hurl abuses and created ruckus citing that she is charging exorbitant prices.

Pooja objected to his behaviour asking him to get out of the shop for which he threatened her with dire consequences.

He told me that we are outsiders and accused us of exploitation.He threatened us that he will stage protest against us and ensure that we should not continue to do business.

After filing a complain,Pooja also went to bbmp and filed representation with the BBMP administrative officer and BBMP Commissioner seeking protection as she is facing threat from Dhanraj said by Pooja Agarwal in her statement to media persons.

Senior officer said,A case has been registered in this regard in Wilson garden police station and we will take appropriate action after conducting a probe he added.

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North Division Police of JC nagar police on Monday busted a inter-state drug racket and arrested two unemployed graduated red handed while they were trying to hand over drug consignment to their contacts after receiving the parcel from Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

The accused has been identified as,Sannad,24 and Mohammed Bilal,24,from Kerala and residing in Chandapura and HSR layout.The duo are commerce graduate and jobless .

DCP North,Dharmendra Kumar Meena,told media persons,D R,Nagaraj,Inspector JC nagar police station,based on credible information along with his team raided a place near UT college on Miller’s road and caught the duo while they were waiting for their contacts to deliver the consignment.

Inquiries revealed that the duo were assigned the job to receive the parcel from goods vehicle coming from Vishakhapatnam and hand it over to their contacts on millers road.

The duo said that the job assigned to them over the phone and they have not seen their handler.

The duo were promised RS.5,000 each for the job and given a mobile number of the person to whom the parcel had to be delivered.

The accused were told to send the location details to the number given and hand over the parcel only after confirming the contact numbers.

It is an inter state racket these accused are used as mules,during interrogation the accused confessed that it was their first time.However we are investigating to ascertain criminal background while efforts are on to track down their handlers and 10 kg Ganja seized from their possession.

A case under NDPS Act has been registered against the accused and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated,Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP,North,Dharmendra Kumar Meena,ACP JC Nagar,Sub-division,Smt Reena Suvarna,PI,D R Nagaraj,and his team as,PSI,Vinod J, Mehaboob Saab,Sreemanth Rathod,Shivanand Kamath,Ramesh Thondihal,Veeresh has been appreciated for the commendable job done by them and suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Jayadeva Hospital director Dr CN Manjunath said that the situation can be monitored and reviewed in three weeks’ time.

BENGALURU : The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has stuck to its guns on reopening offline classes for class 10 and 12 students from January 1, taking a stand that postponing reopening further would be a knee-jerk reaction in the wake of the new variant of SARS-CoV-2.

At its meeting on Tuesday, the committee deliberated on whether or not regular classes should resume for Grades 10 and 12. It decided that for now it is alright to reopen offline classes, and that another decision cannot be made in a week.

He said the decision for Vidyagama students of Class 6-9 will be made by the education department. The TAC had in its previous meeting a week ago had recommended in a report that schools reopen on January 1. Primary and Secondary Education S Suresh Kumar said that the TAC had given the nod days ago, and arrangements are being made for the reopening of schools for class 10 and 12.

With just over a week to go for the reopening of schools, TAC experts believe it is too soon to react to the new strain of the virus. The TAC took a month to come out with its recommendation after the education department announced in November that schools would remain closed for the whole of December.

Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa explained that all international travellers will be checked at the airports itself before allowing them into the state.

BENGALURU: Allaying apprehensions that night curfew may be imposed in the state, like in neighbouring Maharashtra, after a new strain of SARS-CoV2 was detected in Britain, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Tuesday said there was no need for such a measure as of now.

The State Government is also not looking at any kind of lockdown or quarantine for inter-state travellers. “We understand that the finding of a mutated strain of the virus has worried the people of the state and also the country.

We have come to know that someone who arrived in Chennai has been found infected. We have to be extra cautious and we have put stringent measures in place,” he said. 

Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa explained that all international travellers will be checked at the airports itself before allowing them into the state. To a question on imposing night ban he said,”There is no need for it here for now. Restrictions for New Year celebrations are already in place.”

The Maharashtra government on Monday had announced a night curfew in municipal corporation areas as a precautionary step amid growing concerns over the new virus strain spreading in Britain.

However, Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar said that he will discuss with the CM regarding imposing night curfew in the state, but ruled out the possibility of a lockdown.

“I held discussions with the Union Health Department Secretary, who said that there was no reason to worry, but necessary precautionary measures should be taken. There is no question of a lockdown and, in my personal opinion, certain activities like partying, gathering in numbers during night times can be stopped. I will meet the CM and discuss with him about the night curfew,” he added.

Meanwhile, Health Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pandey said the state Health Department is imposing quarantine norms only for international travellers from the UK, but not for inter-state travellers.

“As of now, we are not imposing any quarantine rules for inter-state travellers. We will implement it later if the situation demands.

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The Anti-Narcotics Wing of CCB stepped up investigation into the drug racket linked to Sandalwood from three months has arrested Vinay kumar on Monday,who is named as 12th accused in the cottonpet drug case.Who was on the run from past 3 months.

The accused has been identified as,Vinay Kumar a event organiser who used to organise parties at reputed hotels across city.

A special team who was on search for the absconding accused who is 12th accused in cottonpet police station drug scandal case was arrested near Goraguntepalya.

Sandeep Patil,Joint Commissioner of Police,said that the accused Vinay Kumar booked in the drug case was on the run since three months.He has been taken into custody to ascertain his drug network and also his whereabout while he was on the run.The investigation is also to find about the people who helped him during his escape.

Being addicted to drugs,Vinay also peddle drugs and organised parties at reputed hotels across the city on behest of Viren Khanna.Such parties are attended by Ravishankar and Ragini among the others.

Soon after his name cropped up,he was on the run and even applied for an anticipatory bail. However the court dismissed his bail petition.

Based on tip off,team of CCB officials arrested him in Goraguntepalya where he was come to meet his friends seeking help.The CCB team produced the accused before the Magistrate and the court remanded him to CCB police custody till 28th December for further investigation he added.

The ccb yet to arrest many prime accused in the case who are on the run and hoodwinking CCB tracking team.

A few key accused still remain elusive,including party organiser Sheikh Fazil and Aditya Alva,the son of the late Minister Jeevaraj Alva and brother-in-law of Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi. As part of their search,the police had raided Vivek Oberoi’s residence in Mumbai and summoned Alva’s sister Priyanka who is married to the actor for questioning.

The CCB is investigating the drug abuse case after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested three people hailing from Kerala in Bengaluru, who were allegedly supplying drugs to Kannada film actors and singers last month.