Assembly polls: Another election app released
Bengaluru: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike on Tuesday released the BBMP-VTrack app — GPS-based real-time tracking system — that will track vehicles on election duty.
“The application can help Returning Officers and monitoring teams track vehicles used by the flying squad, expenditure officer, video surveillance team, static surveillance team, and sectoral officers by constituency. The idea is to reduce the response time if there is a complaint. The app gives details of the drivers, vehicle number and their contact number. An immediate SMS can be sent to the driver through the app,” said BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad.
More than 650 vehicles on election duty have already been tracked through the app, he said. Additional details such as message log and history of route taken by a driver can be seen on the app.
Earlier in the month, the BBMP developed three other election-related apps — Election Quiz, Model Code of Conduct Reporting, and Election Officers Directory — which hardly saw users.
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Rape accused's mother murdered by victim's brother in MP's Shivpuri
Shivpuri (PTI): The 60-year-old mother of a rape accused was killed allegedly by the victim's brother in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district, a police official said on Saturday.
The incident took place on Friday, Rannod police station house officer (SHO) Arvind Chauhan said.
"An anganwadi worker returning from a hospital was offered a lift by one Inder Gurjar, who took her to a secluded spot and raped her. She called up her brothers to narrate the ordeal. One brother of the victim along with two associates went to Gurjar's house and assaulted him. When Gurjar's mother Sirkunwarbai (60) intervened, she was attacked with a sharp weapon. She died on the spot," he said.
Based on a complaint filed by the deceased woman's daughter-in-law, three persons were booked for murder. One of them was held on Saturday, the official added.
A separate case has also been registered against Gurjar for rape, he said.
Police personnel have been deployed in the area in view of tension following the incident, the official added.
