Police have got leads in Rs 7 cr heist, says Home Minister Parameshwara
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Friday said the police have secured some important leads in the Rs seven crore heist and assured that the culprits would be arrested soon.
Addressing reporters here, Parameshwara said, "We have got some important leads in the robbery case. I cannot disclose it now because it will alert them. We will catch them very soon."
Responding to the opposition criticism over the delay in nabbing the accused, the minister said, "We are a responsible government. We will catch them, we will not leave them."
He added that he would list out all the crimes that had occurred during the previous BJP regime.
Unidentified men allegedly posing as RBI officials intercepted a ATM cash van here and decamped with about Rs seven crore on Wednesday.
The incident occurred when the vehicle was transporting cash from a bank branch in JP Nagar.
Preliminary investigation revealed that a group of men arrived in a car carrying a Government of India sticker and stopped the cash vehicle, claiming that they wanted to verify documents.
The suspects then forced the van's staff into their car along with cash.
They allegedly drove towards Dairy Circle where they dropped the staff and sped away with the cash which is estimated to be about Rs seven crore, they said.
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SWR announces special trains for passengers stranded by large-scale IndiGo cancellations
Bengaluru (PTI): The South Western Railway on Saturday announced a series of special trains, in coordination with Central, South Eastern and Southern Railways, to clear stranded passengers following large-scale IndiGo flight cancellations across the country.
The special services will operate between December 6 and 10 on high-demand routes, including Bengaluru–Chennai, Bengaluru–Pune, Yesvantpur–Hazrat Nizamuddin, Shalimar–Yelahanka and Ernakulam–Yelahanka, officials said.
According to an official statement, SWR will run Train No. 06255/06256 between Chennai Egmore and KSR Bengaluru, 06257/06258 between Bengaluru and MGR Chennai Central, 06259/06260 between Yesvantpur and Hazrat Nizamuddin, and 06263/06264 between Bengaluru and Pune.
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Central Railway will operate Train No. 01413/01414 between Pune and Bengaluru, while South Eastern Railway will run Train No. 08073/08074 between Shalimar and Yelahanka. Southern Railway will operate Train No. 06147/06148 between Ernakulam and Yelahanka, the statement said.
Railways has advised passengers to check updated timings on its official channels and arrive early at stations.
For at least five days in a row, IndiGo flight operations have been significantly disrupted, with a large number of cancellations and delays causing hardships to thousands of passengers. In many cases, baggage has been misplaced.
