Bengaluru top cop sends staff older than 50 years on leave
Bengaluru, June 21: City Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao has declared that police officers and staff above 50 years of age will be given leave.
The Department staff have been working round the clock since the declaration of lockdown. Some of them are infected with the virus. The number of positive cases too is on the rise. The older working staff members are, therefore, being sent on leave,” the Commissioner explained.
He was addressing a press meet on Sunday and said that all inspectors and sub-inspectors in the city have been given 10 instructions.
“Department staff aged above 50 years who have problems like blood pressure, diabetes or any other health issues, have been told to stay at home. Also, no staff member who has been given such leave may go out of Bengaluru. The staff from North Karnataka too have been instructed to stay in the city,” Rao said, adding, “There are young officers among the Home Guards too. We will take their help if needed.”
Further, the Commissioner said that the infected police staff members should be given proper treatment. “We have also demanded a regular report on the food and treatment given to them,” he said.
“Discipline is a very important aspect of the functioning of the Department. The problems should not be put up on the social media – which would be an act of indiscipline. The police quarters will be kept under watch, strangers should not be permitted into the limits of the quarters is also an instruction given,” Rao added.
“The police staff members have also been told to arrest the accused only in prominent, important cases. No citizen may be arrested without permission from the DCP and ACP,” said the Commissioner.
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Traffic fraud: Fake 'no-entry' sticker racket busted in Delhi, mastermind among 3 held
New Delhi (PTI): Police here have busted a crime syndicate involved in traffic fraud and extortion, arresting three people including the alleged mastermind who sold fake stickers to help commercial vehicles bypass no-entry restrictions, an official said on Saturday.
The police said they dismantled a third organised syndicate linked to traffic-related frauds, with the arrest of Rinku Rana alias Bhushan, his associate Sonu Sharma and Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, who was also connected to another extortion syndicate.
According to the police, Rinku Rana was running a well-organised network that facilitated the movement of commercial goods vehicles during restricted hours by selling fake 'marka' or stickers for Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 per vehicle every month. The stickers were falsely projected as authorisation to evade traffic challans.
During raids, the police recovered Rs 31 lakh in cash, property documents worth several crores of rupees, over 500 fake stickers and six mobile phones allegedly used to operate the syndicate.
The crackdown followed a complaint filed by a traffic police officer in April this year after a commercial vehicle tried to evade checking by producing a fake sticker claiming exemption from enforcement action.
Investigation revealed that social media groups were being used to coordinate the illegal movement of vehicles and alert drivers about traffic police checkpoints, police said.
"A parallel system was being run to cheat drivers and vehicle owners while undermining traffic enforcement. On the basis of evidence, provisions related to organised crime under the BNS were invoked," a senior police officer said.
Sonu Sharma, the police said, managed social media groups through which stickers were sold and real-time alerts were circulated regarding traffic police movement. He also acted as a link between Rana and drivers operating in the field.
In a related development, Mukesh Kumar alias Pakodi, an associate of Rajkumar alias Raju Meena, who was earlier arrested under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), was also apprehended.
Mukesh allegedly helped extort money from transporters and was involved in blackmailing traffic police personnel by recording enforcement actions, the police said.
Investigators alleged the syndicate led by Rajkumar deployed drivers to deliberately violate traffic rules and secretly record police officials during challans, later using manipulated videos to extort money under threat of false allegations.
The police said that in total, eight accused belonging to three different organised crime syndicates linked to traffic frauds and extortion have been arrested so far.
Further investigation is underway to trace the remaining members, conduct financial probes, and analyse digital evidence recovered during the raids, officials added.
