Parmesh S Jain

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel attached to Mangaluru Junction Railway Station on Sunday detained a man travelling with Unaccounted cash worth Rs.1.48 crore in cash and 800 grams of gold ornaments without any valid records on the Mumbai LTT-Ernakulam Duronto Express.

The accused has been identified as, Mahendra Singh Rao,33, hailing from Rajasthan.

Senior RPF officer told reporters,The operation, under the supervision of RPF Inspector,Manoj, was conducted by personnel K.Chithraraj, Satheesh Balaji, K.P. Sanjeev Kumar and K. Shajith.

The RPF personnel,who were conducting a preventive check on the Duronto Express (Train No 12223) that arrived at 10.20 a.m.at the Junction,examined the luggage of the man,who was occupying Berth 35 on S4 coach,and found currency bundles wrapped in old newspapers.

The accused was taken to the RPF Post where he informed the personnel that he was working for Shubh Gold,owned by Praveen Singh,in Kozhikode of Kerala.

A man known to his owner handed him six packs of currency notes and three packets of jewellery at Mumbai to be given to the owner,he told them.

The seized currency notes in Rs.2,000 and 500 denomination accounted for Rs.1,48,58,000, while the gold ornaments weighed around 800 grams,worth Rs 40 lakh,the RPF said in a communique.

The RPF personnel later handed over the man, identified as Mahendra Singh Rao (33),a native of Udaipur district in Rajasthan,to the Government Railway Police (GRP),Mangaluru Central,along with the seized material.

The GRP police have arrested the man after booking cases under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Karnataka Police Act.

Finally Senior Divisional Security Commissioner,Debashmita Chattopadhyay Banerjee,ADGP,Railways,Bhaskar Rao,has appreciated,SP, Railways,Dr Siri Gowri,RPF Inspector,Manoj,K.Chithraraj,Satheesh Balaji, K.P. Sanjeev Kumar and K.Shajith for the tremendous and exemplary work in nabbing the accused by their pro-active presence of mind while conducting search in train a special and suitable reward will be given to the whole team he added.

Parmesh S Jain

A former army officer resident of Konanakunte filed a complaint with the south Division cyber crime police that he is being harassed,abused and threatened by unidentified caller claiming from loan app firm and demanding repayment of loan.

Mr. Surya Narayana in his complaint,said that he started receiving calls from different numbers from last Tuesday claiming that the callers are from the mobile loan app and demanded to repay the loan.

He tried to reason with them stating that he has not availed any loan,but then he abused and threatened with dire consequences .

The police said that there are some mistaken identity and someone might have misusing the the ids of the complainant had taken loan and escaped .

The police are now trying to track down the accused based on the mobile numbers provided by the complainant.

Based on the complaint filed by Ravi Surya Narayana,the police on saturday registered a case against unknown persons charging them under section 504 (intentional insult)and also under various sections of the IT Act he added.

mobile app loan firm cheated

In another incident,manager of a mobile loan app filed a complaint with the police that as many as 39 people have duped the company by availing Rs 35.5 lakh worth loan by submitting documents belonging to other persons .

Mr.Singh manager with Navi Fin serve private limited,situated in Koramangala said that the company is operating since January 2020 and providing quick online loan to the people after they submit PAN card, Aadhar card and bank details .

There are 39 people who submitted documents belonging to different people and availed loan. The cheating came to light when the firm approached the defaulters at their address based on the Ids submitted.

Based on a complaint by Partha Sarathi Singh, the Southeast division cyber crime police on Thursday registered a case against the defaulters and are investigating .

Parmesh S Jain

A 31-year-old businessman ended his life over domestic row in in Basaveshwara Nagar on Monday night.

The deceased has been identified as,Chand Pasha was upset as his wife lavish life and the couple used to have frequent fights .

Senior officer told media persons,Chand Pasha, a resident of Manjunath Nagar and was running a automobile spare parts and service center.

The incident took place on Monday night as Chand Pasha went to sleep in the hall after a fight with his wife.He hanged himself while his wife was in asleep in the bedroom.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Pasha had married Husna four months ago after divorcing his first wife.

Husna, pregnant with three months used to fight with Pasha for not going weekend trips and not buying gold and for not getting gifts.

Pasha left suicide note blaming Husna and her never ending demands made him to take this extreme step, the police officer added. A case of unnatural death has been registered and further investigations are on.

Parmesh S Jain

The Byatarayanapura police on Monday arrested a gang of three and recovered 25 stolen bikes 65 grams of gold valuables and 24 mobile phones from them altogether worth of Rs.30 lakhs from his possession.

The accused has been identified as,Kabir Pasha, 20,Syed Kaleem,30 and Aftab Pasha,20 .

Senior officer told media persons, following a series of bike theft cases,a high level meeting was called by DCP,West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP, Kodandarama,PI,Shankar Naik and his crime team were part of the meeting.

DCP after taking stock of the complaints formed a special team under the supervision of ACP, Kodandarama,a team headed by PI,Shankar Naik and his team swung into action.

The team utilising the police technology skill and after analysing CCTV footage the team got the Identity of the bike lifting gang the crime staff identified the accused and tracked Kabir and arrested him.

During investigation the accused confessed the crime and based on his statement the team nabbed two of his associates who were part of lifting bikes were also arrested.

Based on his information the police arrested his associated and recovered 25 bikes and 65 grams of gold and 24 mobile phones .

The accused had also stolen a bike and robbed a gold chain and Rs 11,000 from a person in Uppinangadi town police station limits at knife point.

A detailed investigation by the team it was found that the accused used roam around Shamanna garden and JJ Nagar and used to steal bikes parked in front of the houses and used them to commit chain snatching and mobile snatching in and around the city .

The Byatarayanpura police are now trying to track down the owners of the bikes and mobile phones for further investigations.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Sandeep Patil,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP, Kodandarama,PI,Shankar Naik and his whole team for the commendable job done by them in nabbing all the accused and recovered stolen property from them a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Parmesh S Jain

The Sampigehalli police on Monday arrested a 34-year-old realtor from Pune who posing as HR manager cheated job aspiring techies offering positions at IBM and escaped after collecting money from them.

The accused has been identified as,Sanjeev Gangaram Ghurkha Chinchwad,from Pune was caught based on a complaint from the IBM company after four of the victims walked into the IBM office at Manyata tech park with fake job offer letters last week.

Based on the complaint, the Sampigehalli police swung into action and track down Sanjeev and arrested him.

Senior officer told reporters,an Initial probe revealed that the accused is B com graduate and worked in a call centre which offered support to IBM.

Later accused started real estate business and wanted money to invest.He chalked out a plan to cheat people and targeted gullible job aspirants online .

Claiming as HR Manager,Sanjeev interviewed many people and offered them different roles.He took money ranging from 80,000 to Rs 25,000 on the pretext of security deposits for issuing the laptops at the time of joining the company.

The accused had opened at least 8 bank accounts to ask the victims to deposit money online.Anup A Shetty,DCP northeast,said media persons.It is suspected that he had cheated as many as 40 persons since the last few months and investigations are on to ascertain his criminal background, Mr.Shetty,said to reporters.

Parmesh S Jain

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel attached to Mangaluru Junction Railway Station on Sunday detained a man travelling with Unaccounted cash worth Rs.1.48 crore in cash and 800 grams of gold ornaments without any valid records on the Mumbai LTT-Ernakulam Duronto Express.

The accused has been identified as, Mahendra Singh Rao,33, hailing from Rajasthan.

Senior RPF officer told reporters,The operation, under the supervision of RPF Inspector,Manoj, was conducted by personnel K.Chithraraj, Satheesh Balaji, K.P. Sanjeev Kumar and K. Shajith.

The RPF personnel,who were conducting a preventive check on the Duronto Express (Train No 12223) that arrived at 10.20 a.m.at the Junction,examined the luggage of the man,who was occupying Berth 35 on S4 coach,and found currency bundles wrapped in old newspapers.

The accused was taken to the RPF Post where he informed the personnel that he was working for Shubh Gold,owned by Praveen Singh,in Kozhikode of Kerala.

A man known to his owner handed him six packs of currency notes and three packets of jewellery at Mumbai to be given to the owner,he told them.

The seized currency notes in Rs.2,000 and 500 denomination accounted for Rs.1,48,58,000, while the gold ornaments weighed around 800 grams,worth Rs 40 lakh,the RPF said in a communique.

The RPF personnel later handed over the man, identified as Mahendra Singh Rao (33),a native of Udaipur district in Rajasthan,to the Government Railway Police (GRP),Mangaluru Central,along with the seized material.

The GRP police have arrested the man after booking cases under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Karnataka Police Act.

Finally Senior Divisional Security Commissioner,Debashmita Chattopadhyay Banerjee,ADGP,Railways,Bhaskar Rao,has appreciated,SP, Railways,Dr Siri Gowri,RPF Inspector,Manoj,K.Chithraraj,Satheesh Balaji, K.P. Sanjeev Kumar and K.Shajith for the tremendous and exemplary work in nabbing the accused by their pro-active presence of mind while conducting search in train a special and suitable reward will be given to the whole team he added.

Parmesh S Jain

The Northeast Division police of Kodigehalli police have arrested a gang of three men for kidnapping a 24-year-old girl after forcing her for marriage.

The accused has been identified as, Devaraj,32,Naveen,Kumar,

A senior police officer said a complaint was filed by victims Father stating that,On Saturday night the girl was returning home after the work and Devaraj along with his friends confronted her and kidnapped her in their car and took her to Sakaleshpura.

Based on a complaint the Kodigehalli police inspector passed the information to his seniors as DCP, Northeast,Dr Anoop Shetty regarding the kidnapping,DCP,along with ACP, Yelahanka Sub-Division,Jayaram,PI,Raghavendra Babu and their crime staff rushed to the spot and after analysing CCTV footage in the vicinity the team identified the vehicle used in kidnapping.

A special team was formed under the supervision of DCP,a special team with the technology skill tracked the accused to Sakaleshpura a special team immediately swung into action and rescued the girl with in 24 hours and Devaraj and his gang was nabbed.They have been taken into police custody for further investigations.

During investigation it was revealed that the prime accused Devaraj,(32), a real estate agent and married to elder sister of the victim and fell in love with her since few months.He forced her for marriage and as she refused it he decided to kidnap.

The gang even tortured her and tried to convince her for marriage.But she managed to contact her family members and told about the incident. Then they approached the police and the girl has been reunited safely to their family members.

A detailed investigation by the team it is revealed that the accused who is victim’s sister husband has kidnapped before also in Tumakuru and was jailed and is out on bail.A case of Dowry harrasment is also filed against the accused in Tumakuru and she got separated from him and was leaving in her father’s house working in a private company he added.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP East, Subramanyeswara Rao,DCP,Northeast,Dr Anoop Shetty,ACP,Jayaram,PI,Raghavendra Babu and his whole team who has done a exemplary and meticulous investigation in nabbing the trio and rescuing the girl within 24 hours safely a special reward will be given to the team he added.

Parmesh S Jain

Appointments to various Boards and Corporations depends on the discussions in the party over the issue,Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Reacting to BJP State President,Nalin Kumar Kateel’s statement that the appointments would happen in the next week,Bommai said,it depends on the party.

There is no proposal before the Chief Minister on the issue of appointments to Boards and Corporations.

The party leadership would examine the issue and submit a report.Action would be taken based on that,Bommai said speaking to media persons here on Monday.

Budget Preparations :

Preparations for the Budget have started.Internal meetings have been held with finance and revenue generating departments in the month of December.Instructions have been issued on achieving the targets.

Another meeting with the Finance department would be held on January 25 in the backdrop of Covid havoc since the end of December.

The budget would be prepared after discussions with various departments and organisations, Bommai said.

I don’t know about secret meeting :

Replying to a question about a secret meeting reportedly held at the house of Umesh Katti in Belagavi,I don’t know about it.

Different leaders keep meeting on various occasions.Even Congress and BJP leaders keep meeting.Interpretations of the media about these meetings are not correct,Bommai said.

Cabinet expansion :

There are 4 vacant berths in the ministry. Naturally there are aspirants for them.Nothing wrong with that.Top leadership will decide on when and how to go about it.

I too have brought it to the notice of the top leadership.I will provide all the details when the top leadership calls me for discussion,Bommai said.

Booklet on 6 month achievements of the Govt:

The Bommai government is completing 6 months in office on January 28.When asked whether he is happy about his performance so far,Bommai said, “I will reply by calling a press conference. A booklet giving details of the achievements would be released on the occasion.”

Covid situation :

Various decisions have been taken to tackle Covid.The weekend curfew has been withdrawn. The spread of the pandemic, its trend and condition of the infected is being monitored. Suitable decisions would be taken based on these aspects, Bommai said.

Reacting to happenings at the Udupi college, Bommai said,Education minister has been instructed to look into the issue.