Udupi: Police find Cyanide from suspected terrorist Aditya Rao’s bank locker
Udupi: A police team has retrieved a box containing Cyanide from the bank locker of the man who is suspected to have planted an explosive at the airport here last week, police said on Sunday.
Aditya Rao, who was taken by the team on Saturday to the bank in Udupi besides a few other places he had frequented in the past, told the police that that powder was cyanide.
The probe team, led by ACP K U Belliappa, sent the box to the Forensic Science Laboratory for examination, police said.
The man, a native of Manipal, had the locker at Kunjibettu branch of Karnataka Bank in Udupi.
A family member had reportedly mentioned to the police that the 36-year old Rao had wanted to commit suicide by consuming poison.
Rao was also taken to Malpe near Udupi from where he had made the hoax call to the airport that a bomb had been placed in the IndiGo flight to Bengaluru on the same day he placed the bomb near the ticket counter of the airport.
He confessed to the police of having made the bomb threat call to the terminal manager, police said.
After the call, he dumped the SIM card and left for Bengaluru where he surrendered to the police on January 22.
Police, however, could not retrieve the SIM card.
Rao, under ten days police custody, will be taken later to Karkala where he worked in a restaurant, police said.
A 'live' explosive device was found in an unattended bag near a ticket counter of the departure gate of the airport here on January 20, triggering a scare before it was defused at a nearby open ground.
Police had released a picture of a man captured on CCTV camera as the suspect who placed the bomb and Rao later surrendered.
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Power tariffs under BESCOM to rise from May 1
Bengaluru (PTI): Power bills for consumers under the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) will go up from May 1, following an order issued by the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) on Friday.
The hike comes after KERC allowed the BESCOM to recover a revenue deficit of Rs 2,068 crore incurred in 2024-25, from the consumers.
As a result, for every unit of electricity consumed in 2024-25, the customers will be charged an additional 56 paise, it said.
"BESCOM shall calculate, for each of the active consumers of FY2024-25 the amount to be recovered based on their actual energy consumption during FY2024-25. Such amount shall be recovered during FY 2026-27 in equal monthly instalments, to be called as 'FY25 True up Charges', commencing from the first meter reading date falling on or after 1 May 2026 and concluding with the reading date ending on 30 April 2027," the order said.
"It is further ordered that BESCOM shall maintain a separate head of account, allocated for the purpose, to record the adjustment of the said amount to ensure full recovery of the deficit," it added.
Similarly Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (CESC) has also recorded a revenue deficit of Rs 121.71 crore and can collect an additional 15 paisa per unit for consumption in 2024-25, official sources said.
