Chikmagaluru: SP Annamalai transferred; Harish Pandey is new SP
Chikmagaluru, October 16: The state government on Tuesday transferred Chikmagaluru SP K. Annamalai to Bengaluru South with immediate effect. In place of Annamalai, the government has placed Harish Pandey.
Harish Pandey had worked as CID SP. He was instrumental in investigating the Gauri Lankesh murder case.
For the last few days, rumours were doing rounds that Annamalai would be transferred. As soon as BS Yeddyurappa took over as the Chief Minister after Assembly election, he had transferred Annamalai to Ramanagar. But in the later political developments, H.D. Kumaraswamy became the Chief Minister. After, the new CM has cancelled the transfer of Annamalai and retained in Chikmagaluru.
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BMTC collects over Rs 19 lakh as fine from those travelling without tickets, occupying ladies seat
Bengaluru (PTI): The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has collected over Rs 19 lakh as a penalty from 10,069 passengers who were penalised for travelling without tickets and occupying seats exclusively reserved for ladies in the last three months, officials said on Thursday.
The checking staff of BMTC have intensified checking of buses operated in and around Bengaluru City to detect ticketless travelling by passengers, they said.
According to BMTC, during the months of August, September and October, the checking staff checked 57,219 trips and penalised 8,891 ticketless passengers by collecting Rs 17,96,030 as penalty and 5,268 cases were booked against conductors for their dereliction of duty.
During the same period, they have also penalised 1,178 male passengers for occupying seats exclusively reserved for lady passengers and imposed fines by collecting Rs 1,17,800 in accordance with the KMV (Karnataka Motor Vehicle) Rules of the MV Act of 1988.
"In total, during the months of August, September and October, 10,069 passengers were penalised and Rs 19,13,830 was collected," the BTMC officials stated.
