Bengaluru: Inspector selected for CM’s gold medal flees for fear of Lokayukta arrest
Bengaluru: In a dramatic incident reported here, a senior police officer who had been selected for the Chief Minister's Gold Medal, Inspector Kumar of Annapoorneshwari Nagar Police Station is reported to be absconding allegedly for fear of an arrest by Lokayukta Police.
The officer, who is learned to be absconding since Tuesday night, was to receive the medal on Wednesday, April 2, having been selected for his outstanding performance as police officer.
The inspector is accused of harassing one Anusha, wife of contractor Channegowda. He allegedly filed a false case against Gowda and then pressurized Anusha to sell a house worth Rs 4 crore, harassing her further to register it for a lower price.
Anusha was called for a rendezvous at a private hotel in Nagarbhavi on Tuesday evening to sign an agreement in this regard, but Inspector Kumar reportedly fled from the scene on learning that Lokayukta officers were raiding the hotel.
Five people, including two constables, are learned to have been arrested on the occasion.
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Bantwal police arrest two men for illegal sale of narcotics, seize two vehicles, 810 gm ganja
Mangaluru: Bantwal Rural Police have arrested two men who were allegedly attempting to sell narcotics illegally near the National Highway 75 stretch in Hanumanagar of Thumbay in Bantwal taluk on Saturday evening.
The police team, led by Bantwal Rural Sub-inspector Manjunath T, held the operation on being informed that the arrested men, identified as Sameer (31) of Thumbay and Muhammad Asif (35) of Goodinabali, were trying to sell narcotics illegally at the said place. When they reached the place, they are learned to have found two men standing in a suspicious manner beside a car and an auto rickshaw parked on an empty plot near the highway. The policemen caught and questioned the men, who confessed that they had been trying to sell ganja.
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The team, on checking the car, reportedly found 450 gram of the narcotic along with 360 gram in the auto rickshaw. The narcotic and the two vehicles have been seized by the police.
A case has been registered against Sameer and Asif at the Bantwal Rural Police Station, the Department has said in a press statement.
