Recenty, a house was broken into in HSR Layout. Interestingly, not all the gold and silver jewellery was stolen. It appears that the thief was quite selective on what needed to be stolen.
The police complaint is filed by Harisha HG, a 39-year-old resident of Sector 2. The theft occurred when Harisha left home on August 15 at 4.30pm to visit his uncle’s home in Koramangala. When he returned around 9.40pm, the front door knob was broken and the door was wide open.
When Harisha inspected the interiors, he found all the belongings scattered all over the place. He found that while some gold and silver jewellery was stolen, the rest was not.
The cops have registered a case of theft and trespassing, and are investigating.
When you pay well, your employees should be happy. However, if you set up a new firm and siphon off all the business from the company that employed you to the firm that you set up, it becomes a fraudulent activity. And that’s what has happened in HSR Layout recently.
Real estate dealer Pruthvi Raj Batra (57), a resident of Sector 6, is the affected party due to the alleged fraud committed by his employees, Abhishek Gupta (29), a resident of Sector 7, and Himanshu Mitra Agarwal (38), a resident of Iblur.
The complaint states that the two accused were employed with Batra’s Delhi-based firm, Buniyad Retail India’s Bangalore branch. They were in charge of the unit and being given the salary and other benefits by Batra’s firm. However, unknown to Batra, the accused set up their own apartment sales company and transacted all the real estate deals by diverting Batra’s clients to their firm. This way, the complaint alleges that they cheated Batra’s company worth lakhs.
The HSR Layout police have charged the accused for criminal breach of trust and are investigating.
Shivaram Narayanan, a 36-year-old employee with Cult Fit Healthcare Pvt Ltd, and a resident of Sector 2, has accused Avijit Alakatti and Devi Prasad Biswal of mouthing expletives and threatening him with life for cancelling their business contract with Cult.
The Cult Fit corporate office in Sector 3, HSR Layout, aligns with various software firms to support its suite of services. For Cult Fit Healthcare, the firm attaches different software firms to service its clientele. One such company was Book Your Gym Pvt Ltd. Cult Fit signed an agreement with this firm in May this year. However, when Shivaram sought legal opinion on this firm, it was not favourable. This led to the cancellation of the business agreement between Cult and Book Your Gym.
Apparently, this did not go down well with Shivaram’s new business partners. He has alleged that Avijit Alakatti and Devi Prasad Biswal of Book Your Gym called Shivaram and asked him to attach their firm based on the signed agreement. They allegedly mouthed expletives and threatened Shivaram with dire consequences.
The cops have charged the accused for criminal intimidation and intentional insult.
Smita Kulkarni, a resident of HSR Layout until last year and now the inhabitant of Whitefield, is nominated for the coveted REX Karmaveer Global Fellowship and Karmaveer Chakra award. The honour is given by iCONGO in association with the United Nations. Smita is not only part of Whitefield Rising, one of the most proactive residents welfare associations in Bangalore but also a member of Swachh Doddanekundi.
According to the REX organisers, the recognition is for “champions of change who make a difference in our society with their ideas for action to be the change and REXchange mindsets by walking the path less trodden.”
The growth mindset of Smita lies in her anti-plastic campaigning she began in HSR Layout. To add to the environment-friendly gestures, she began selling cloth bags to dissuade people from using disposable plastic covers and bags. In addition, she campaigned for sustainable menstruation and sold products like reusable menstrual cups.
Smita is now recognised as an “architect of the RIGHT every WRONG, Karmaveer, REX Swacch Bharat Mission and the Joy of Giving initiatives”. The award will be announced and given away on November 25-27, 2019. We wish Smita all the luck.
Around 2pm on Sunday, August 18, 2019, an SUV ran over seven pedestrians in HSR Layout.
The vehicle was driven by a drunk driver. The drunk driver hurt six pedestrians, four of whom sustained broken bones. The accused driver is Rajendra K, who drove the Mahindra Xylo cab.
The incident occurred in front of Reddy Restaurant, opposite Reliance Trends, on 17th Cross, Sector 7, HSR Layout.
Dowry harassment began from August 22, 2018 and ended on April 22, 2019. The police case was filed on August 1, 2019. This is the second such case from Sector 3 in the last one year.
According to 30-year-old BR Geetha (name changed to protect identity), a resident of Vishweshwariah Layout, Shashi Kumar GN (34), a resident of Sector 3, married her on August 22, 2018 in front of family members at a temple in JP Nagar, Bangalore.
Her family members apparently gifted him valuables worth Rs 30 lakh, including a jeep. According to Geetha, the harasment began the very first day when her husband and mother in law Umadevi (56) pestered her for little things and tortured her both physically and psychologically by asking her for more money.
According to the police complaint, Geetha’s husband and mother-in-law hit her by hand, threatened her with life, and mouthed expletives. Even her husband’s elder brother Dilip Kumar (38) pestered the family for more money and family property over WhatsApp calls from Dubai where he stayed.
The matter reached a head when she was thrown out of her husband’s house in HSR Layout on April 22, 2019. Geetha has charged her husband, mother in law and brother in law for abetting dowry and torturing her ever since she got married a year ago.
The cops have registered the case under the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 and have also filed five charges under the Indian Penal Code for subjecting a woman to cruelty, intentional insult, criminal intimidation, and voluntarily causing hurt.
The Silk Board junction, one of the most busiest intersections in India, might soon lose the infamous tag.
On June 21, the first step was taken to end the traffic nightmarish section of Outer Ring Road and Hosur Road. Today, vehicle users have to wait for up to 45 minutes sometimes just to cross the signal junction.
Renaatus Projects is given the tender by The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) to build 2.8 kilometre flyover over the existing flyover. The Rs 134-crore project will greatly help commuters from HSR Layout, BTM Layout and Electronic City.
Estimated to be completed in 2022, this junction will also have two Metro lines passing through it: Bommasandra-RV Road and Silk Board-KR Puram-Airport.
Bikers and pedestrians are being run over by water tankers. Similarly, bikers are running over pedestrians and injuring other pillion riders in HSR Layout police station limits.
ACCIDENT ON OUTER RING ROAD
On July 23 at 9pm, near the 9th main bus stop on Outer Ring Road (ORR), 54-year-old Renappa G Karadi was trying to cross ORR. He was moving from HSR towards teacher’s colony near Baby Shoppe when a motorcyclist, Vivek S (30), travelling from Agara towards the Silkboard on the HSR flyover, ran over the right leg of Renappa and broke his bone.
Renappa also incurred minor bruises in other parts of his body. The biker took the help of onlookers and rushed Renappa to Greenview Hospital. Later, he was taken to Hosmat Hospital for further treatment. The cops have charged the biker for rash driving and causing grievous hurt.
BIKER INJURES A PILLION RIDER ON SARJAPUR ROAD
On July 9, at 7.30pm, one biker injured another biker and pillion rider with his alleged rash driving, but promised to take care of all the expenses if the police was kept out. However, once the victim was in the hospital, the accused switched off his phone and refused to keep up his promise. Therefore, the complaint was filed six days later on July 15.
The accident took place near Motherhood hospital on Sarjapur Road. A Vinay (20), a resident of Bellandur, was riding with Asha on pillion, when another biker Santhosh, a Swiggy delivery boy, allegedly drove rashly from the opposite side by overtaking a car and hit Vinay’s bike.
The impact was such that both Vinay and Asha fell off their bike. Asha’s leg was broken while Vinay sustained minor bruises. The cops took the help of onlookers and rushed the two injured bikers to Levin Memorial Hospital for treatment. Later, Asha was taken to Greenview Hospital and St John’s Hospital for further treatment.
The cops have charged the accused for rash driving, and not attempting to save the victim. If convicted, Santhosh could be in jail for three months or pay a fine of Rs 500 or both. If this is his second offence, the jail term could be six months and Rs 1000 fine.
Businessman Somashekhara Raju (31), a resident of Laggere, has alleged that four persons conned him and his partners by promising to set up a company for them. However, even after 19 months, the firm was never opened although the expenses kept getting added up. Raju and his two partners Shivakumar and GMK Gowdar were allegedly cheated of over Rs 33 lakh.
According to the police complaint at HSR Layout police station, the accused namely Zameer, Nadeem, Suhel Khan and Nazeer met Raju and his business partners and promised to set up an inexpensive firm near Jalahalli and promised to take care of the maintenance expenditures for three months after the company inauguration.
In addition, they promised to pay 25% of the investment amount every three months in four instalments. Raju paid Rs 33 lakh into the bank accounts of the accused. These even included payments for publicity, salaries, building rental advance, electricity, water and other equipment rentals.
The accused asked Raju to deposit the money into the bank account of Letz Cabs (Mexo Cab) in Sector 3 near Saibaba temple. Raju did what he was told.
However, the company was never inaugurated even after 19 months. And neither did the accused return the money. When Raju asked for money, he was allegedly threatened by the accused. The cops have registered a case of cheating, and criminal intimidation.
SR Raghavendra, the inspector of HSR Layout, has created a video message in Kannada to inform people about the environmental hazards of Plaster of Paris (PoP) idols. Instead, he asks the residents to go in for clay Ganeshas for the upcoming Ganesha Chaturthi celebrations.
On July 16, a midnight robbery attempt was foiled by an alert neighbour.
While constable Mylarappa was at his police outpost in Sector 6, one neighbour rushed to inform him at 1230am. The alert resident reported that a stranger was seen loitering on the terrace of a house on 1st A Main.
When the citizen and the cop rushed to the scene of perceived criminal activity, the stranger jumped out of the house compound and vanished under the cover of darkness. The cop inspected the locked house for any forcible entry but was checked to be fine.
The alert citizen had prevented a theft from happening by being vigilant. The cops are on the hunt for this thief who is charged with attempt to commit theft.
The next time, you see any suspect behaviour or a vehicle parked for days, call 100 and report about it. A vigilant public can prevent many crimes.
The cops had a hard time the other day when they tried to quieten two men talking loudly on 14th Main Road in Sector 6.
At 1230am on July 28, head constables B Kumaraswamy and constable Basavaraju encountered two men during their night beat. They found the youth parking their car at the junction of 14th Main and talking loudly. When the cope asked them to lower their voice and vacate the spot, the men mouthed expletives like ‘police dog’ and threatened to kill the khaki-clad men if they obstruct their activity.
In the melee, one of the men caught the collar of head constable Kumaraswamy and kept pushing him back and forth. When constable Basavaraju tried to intervene, he was pushed and beaten on the head while being mouthed expletives.
The accused are Jayaram KB, a 35-year-old employee at a private firm and a resident of Mahadevapura, and Pradeep Kumar S, a 26-year-old private employee and a resident of Doddanekkundi.
The cops have registered a case against the two persons for breach of peace, common criminal intention, and assaulting and hurting public servants.
