Parmesh Jain

Reassuring the people that there is no proposal to impose lockdown in the state,Chief Minister, Basavaraj Bommai has appealed to people not to heed to rumours in this regard.

Speaking to reporters he reiterated,there is no question of imposing the lockdown now.Normal life should go on.

However he wanted the people to strictly follow the Covid norms in public places.Institutions too need to function responsibly by adhering to the norms at programmes conducted by them.

Bommai, said that, the state government is keeping strict vigil against Omicron,the new variant of Covid virus.

Meanwhile precautions against the Delta variant too is being tightened.Government is tackling the issue on two fronts.

Test swab samples in suspicious cases had been sent to NCBS for Genome sequencing to ascertain the exact variant.

International passengers are being strictly screened at the airports.Those who were in contact with them are also being traced and tested,

State government has issued the guidelines for setting up clusters where a spurt in the cases had been reported.

Those in the clusters are being tested again 7 days after they get a positive report of the first test.

About 4000 persons have been tested at SDM college in Dharwad.Similar tests are on at clusters in Mysuru,Hassan and Anekal in Bengaluru,Bommai said.

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Measures are being taken to increase vaccine administration, says Minister Dr K Sudhakar.

• Urges people to come forward and get vaccinated without delay.

• Chief Minister will write a letter to Prime Minister urging him to impose restrictions on travelers from specific countries.

• Attempts are on to prevent viral transmission at an early stage.

• There have been suggestions that those who do not receive second dose shouldn’t have access to the mall, theater, and government should take decision towards non-payment for treatment in a private hospital and others.We are yet to take any decisions on these.

• The issue of the corpse of patient at the ESI hospital has come to my notice and such negligence should not have happened and it is regrettable.Will take appropriate action in this regard.

Minister of Health and Medical Education Minister,Dr K Sudhakar today said that around 2,500 international passengers arrive to Karnataka every day and it is now mandatory for everyone to undergo RT-PCR testing.

Speaking to reporters,after the technical advisory committee meeting, Dr K Sudhakar said that mandatory RTPCR test is being carried out for travelers from countries where the new virus is found.

Chief Minister has instructed us to test travelers from any country, he said. About 2,500 passengers come to the state every day, from various nations.

For those who are negative,will be home quarantined for seven days.For those who are symptomatic and negative,will have to undergo testing at home on the 5th day.

Asymptomatic will be tested on the 7th day.If positive,they will be immediately hospitalized. And they will be treated separately, Sudhakar said.

Covid’s new variant,Omicron virus has been found in 12 countries across the world.To prevent this variant,all necessary precautionary measures are being taken in the state.

Considering our population and health infrastructure,we need to be more careful than other countries,Dr Sudhakar said.

Preparations for the health care services including availability of beds,oxygen beds, deployment of doctors and personnel,supply of medicine were also discussed at the meeting.

Those who haven’t got vaccination should voluntarily come forward and get vaccinated and stay safe.

Suggestion regarding vaccine drive and measures to increase the numbers were discussed.

41 lakh people are slated to get second dose of Covid vaccine.Priority will be given to reach out to these people,Dr Sudhakar said.

Central government is getting samples from all states.Every international passenger’s contacts are being tracked and tested, Sudhakar said.

Guidelines for treatment :

At the meeting,ways to effectively deal with the Omicron virus,how to control it,and what preparations are to be taken in hospitals and medical colleges were also discussed.

Using technology such as Quarantine App,Tele Medicine are also being considered.In addition, a panel of 10 experts has been set up to formulate separate guidelines for treatment,Sudhakar told reporters.

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The Bagalagunte police are on the lookout for owner of a travel agency who is on the run with around 130 cabs which he had attached from the owners for his firm to operate travel business .

The accused have been identified as Shivakumar, native of Tamilnadu and owner of RS Travels in Nagasandra is allegedly on the run with the cabs and other transport vehicles worth Rs 10 crore .

The accused was offered good rental to the cabs and paying it to the owners on 8th of every months regularly.

Many people who lost jobs during Corona wave borrowed loan and bought cabs and attached to the firm.

The cheating came to light earlier this month when few cab owners did not receive the monthly rental and went to check and found the office was locked and phone was not reachable.Upon inquiry it was revealed that he had vacated the office few days ago and is on run.

A case of cheating has been registered against the travel agency owner in Bagalagunte Police station and further investigation is on.

Vasudev, the former project manager of the Nirmitti Center, who was subjected to a corruption crackdown (ACB Raid), was arrested on Saturday night. Data are available on the ACB raid at Vasudev’s home, finding 1434 per cent more property than income. 

Vasudev did not answer the authorities’ question if the illegal property was found in a high volume. Vasudev was arrested on charges of corruption and failure to cooperate with the investigation. Vasudev is shocked to find illegal property.

The Anti Corruption Bureau on Sunday arrested Vasudeva,57,RN,former project director of Nirmiti Kendra (Bengaluru Rural district ) and remanded him to judicial custody for not cooperating with the ongoing disproportionate case investigation.

During the course of search conducted at his house,the ACB officials recovered documents pertaining to movable and immovable properties including 28 houses,four acres of land,16 sites in and around bengaluru,5 cars,926 grams of gold valuables,9 kgs of silver articles,Rs 17.2 lakh cash,RS.1.3 crore worth bank balance from various bank accounts,besides properties in the name of his wife and son.

The total estimated property worth Rs 31.2 crore which is 1434 percent disproportionate to his known source of income .

The ACB officials suspect that the accused might have many more properties which need to be investigated .

However Vasudev refused to divulge and not co-operate with the investigations.Hence he has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody. The ACB officials now take him into custody later for further investigations.

Parmesh Jain

Vasudev, the former project manager of the Nirmitti Center, who was subjected to a corruption crackdown (ACB Raid), was arrested on Saturday night. Data are available on the ACB raid at Vasudev’s home, finding 1434 per cent more property than income. 

Vasudev did not answer the authorities’ question if the illegal property was found in a high volume. Vasudev was arrested on charges of corruption and failure to cooperate with the investigation. Vasudev is shocked to find illegal property.

The Anti Corruption Bureau on Sunday arrested Vasudeva,57,RN,former project director of Nirmiti Kendra (Bengaluru Rural district ) and remanded him to judicial custody for not cooperating with the ongoing disproportionate case investigation.

During the course of search conducted at his house,the ACB officials recovered documents pertaining to movable and immovable properties including 28 houses,four acres of land,16 sites in and around bengaluru,5 cars,926 grams of gold valuables,9 kgs of silver articles,Rs 17.2 lakh cash,RS.1.3 crore worth bank balance from various bank accounts,besides properties in the name of his wife and son.

The total estimated property worth Rs 31.2 crore which is 1434 percent disproportionate to his known source of income .

The ACB officials suspect that the accused might have many more properties which need to be investigated .

However Vasudev refused to divulge and not co-operate with the investigations.Hence he has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody. The ACB officials now take him into custody later for further investigations.

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The North Division police of Subramanyanagar Police have cracked a blind and clueless murder case of an elderly woman from Andhra Pradesh who went missing from Bengaluru in March this year,two persons arrested in this connection.

A 47-year-old woman who went missing seven months ago killed her in cold blood to take over her property .

The arrested accused have been identified as Noor Ahmed and Sathyanarayana from Karnul in Andhra Pradesh.

Investigation officer said,Seetha had come to her sister’s house four months ago.She never returned after going out for some work .

We couldn’t trace her even after searching in Bengaluru and Mantralayam.Meanwhile, Venkatesh Achar,the missing lady’s younger brother was kidnapped in Mantralayam,and released only after getting his signatures on stamp papers .

The property document read that they are selling their two acre ancestral property to those persons and they,in turn,are selling it to a third party .

After we got the concrete evidence and information,investigation,was expedited and based on the clues,we gathered technical evidence and nabbed two persons who spilled the beans how they roped in and kidnapped the woman and murdered her.

The accused had kidnapped Seeta from Bengaluru on March 26 and took her to Hospet in Vijayanagara.They forcibly took her signatures on property documents,and made her swallow a cyanide capsule,in the pretext of giving medicine for headache and later dumped her body into the canal .

We have launched hunt for other accused persons,and search operation to track the body.

Senior officer told media persons,a missing case was registered in Subramanyanagar Police station in the month of March by the vicitm brother that her sister is missing after she went out to do shopping and has not return.

The Subramanyanagar Police inspector and his team made all efforts to search the woman but they find any clue.

After seven months the Subramanyanagar Police inspector,Sanjeev Gowda received a video clipping from one of the accused friend who had recorded the conversation in a bar while drinking his friend named Satya revealed that they have killed a woman after getting supari from his relative.

Acting on the information the inspector and his team swung into action the team based on the video clipping nabbed the accused identified as Satya alias Satyanarayana a realtor by profession.

The inspector took the case as challenging and seriously and swung into action with,PSIs,as,Smt.Latha,PSI,Amaraiah and other crime staff swung into action.

Crime teams were pressed into action one team was busy in gathering information about the family members,another team was busy in analysing CCTV footage,and other team was busy in checking call details and after analysing the records the team picked one more accused by name Noor Ahmed his associate.

After arresting both the accused the team questioned them and during investigation the team were not convinced with their statement and grilled them in police style for which they confessed the crime and spilled the beans how they kidnapped and murdered.

Investigation revealed that the accused roped in seetha’s relative to take her for shopping and killed her by feeding cyanide when she asked him for a tablet for headache while travelling in a car.

Within seconds Seetha breath her last following which the accused dumped the body in a canal in Hosapete to destroy the evidence.

The victim,Seetha was residing in Rajajinagar alone and her brother Venkatesh Achar,a temple priest filed a missing conplaint.

Investigation revealed that Seetha’s husband had passed away and she was living alone.Seetha is among the four siblings having four acres of ancestral property.

The family decided to sell the property and Seetha was opposing.The accused decided kill her to grab her property.

Two more accused Mental Raghu and Kumara were also involved in the case,died due to health issue a couple of months ago.

Few more accused are involved in the murder and the accused had taken Rs.4.5 lakh cash as supari to kill Seetha and we are gathering more details about the suspects.

We suspect involvement of siblings and investigation are on to ascertain the reason behind the murder and role of the siblings in the case the investigation will be continued under inspector Sanjeev Gowda HB police inspector and his team.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated,Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP North,Vinayak Patil,ACP,KS Venkatesh Naidu,PI,Sanjeev Gowda HB,PSIs,as,Smt.Latha,Amariah,ASIs,as,Smt. Nirmala,and crime staff as, Narasimhamurthy,Manjunath,Thimapppa,Uma Mahesh,Lakshminarayan,Thirthakumar,Mahesh BN,Shivakumar,Nagaraj,Kantharaj,Rajanna and Ashok BC,has been appreciated for the exemplary work and meticulous investigation done by them in cracking the blind and clueless Andhra woman’s murder case after she went missing from past 7 months and arrested duo Supari killer and his associate a special reward will be given to whole team he added.