Anti-drug addiction campaign on Sept 27: WhiteField DCP Abdul Ahad
Bengaluru, September 26: WhiteField zone DCP Abdul Ahad said that the City Police department has organized a mega anti-drug addiction campaign to create awareness among youth at Phoenix Market City at Mahadevapura in the city on September 27 at 6.30 pm.
Speaking to Varthabharati here on Wednesday, the DCP said that nowadays, the youth have been facing danger due to drug addiction. For the last two months, the department has been conducting several awareness programmes across the city. Awareness programmes were conducted in schools and colleges and arrested those who sell drugs. As the campaign was completing two months, more than one thousand volunteers who worked with the police department in the programmes would take oath to join hands with the police to create awareness on drug addiction, he said.
Former International cricketer and ICC match referee Javagal Srinath, City police commissioner T. Sunil Kumar and other Senior Officers would take part in the campaign, he said.
The police would announce the slogan ‘From addiction to Health’. Phoenix Market City has provided the space to conduct the event and V.J. Rashmi would conduct the programme, he said.
The programme would have Body building event, Orchestra, Kalaripayattu, Martial art and screening of a documentary prepared by the Bengaluru police on effects of drug addiction. The guests and volunteers would perform an exercise to give a message against the drug addiction, he said and appealed the people of Bengaluru to participate in the campaign in more number to create awareness on drug addiction and its impact on society.
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Bank manager shot dead in fit of rage by security manager upset by salary, denied leave
Lucknow (PTI): A security guard of a Ghaziabad bank upset over leave and salary related issues walked into the manager's cabin and shot him dead, police said on Tuesday.
The 34-year-old manager of the Loni branch of the Punjab and Sind Bank was rushed to a hospital on Monday where he was declared dead, they said.
The security guard, Ravindra Hooda (50) and his accomplice, Shishupal (57), have been arrested, police said.
"The security guard along with his accomplice entered the cabin of the bank manager and fired at him. The injured bank manager was taken to GTB Hospital in Delhi for treatment, where doctors declared him as dead," police said in a statement.
SHO Loni Border Manish Bist on Tuesday said the bank manager, Abhishek Kumar, was from Patna. He has been posted in Ghaziabad since August 2025, and was living in a rented house with his wife.
Police said that during interrogation, Hooda said he had been working in the branch for the past two and a half months.
"He said his salary was reduced, and when he would ask for leave, it was refused. Following this, there was an argument with him (Abhishek Kumar)," the police statement said.
He said he fired at the bank manager in anger and that Shishupal was present with him during the incident, it added. Hooda and Shishupal were from the same village in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh.
Police said a case under section 103 (1) (punishment for murder) of the BNS has been registered against him. Police have recovered a double-barrel gun and ammunition and the Arms Act has also been slapped on the accused, the statement said.
