K'taka: Inspector, PSI suspended following arrest of constables selling drugs near CM's residence
Bengaluru top-cop issues memo to two DCPs for dereliction of duty
Bengaluru: Following the arrest of two police constables deployed for CM security over their involvement in drug peddling, the City Police Commissioner has also suspended two other officers including an inspector for dereliction of duty.
The city's top-cop Kamal Pant has also issued a show-cause memo to two DCPs in the matter.
RT Nagar Police Inspector Ashwadh Gowda and PSI Veerbhadra have been suspended from the duty pending enquiry.
Additionally, the Commissioner has also issued a memo to Bengaluru East DCP Srinath Joshi seeking a reply on deploying the accused constables at CM's residence without history-checking them before clearing for deployment. CM Security personnel's supervisor and VIP DCP Manjunath has also been served the memo seeking a reply for dereliction of duty.]
On Tuesday, the city police had arrested two constables deputed for the security of CM Bommai for peddling drugs near the CM’s official residence in the city. They were also reportedly extorting money from drug peddlers.
The arrested policemen have been identified as Shivakumar and Santosh. They were attached to the Koramangala Police Station and were deputed as the security officers at CM’s residence in RT Nagar.
“The policemen used Dunzo, a parcel service, to procure the drugs. They used to find a location near the chief minister’s house to conduct sales so nobody would suspect them,” Hindustan Times reported one of the police officials privy to the matter, as saying.
According to the reports, the matter came to light when the two cops got into a heated argument with the supplier. When the fight got louder, other policemen arrived and checked the two constables and found drugs on them.
The two constables later confessed to the crime. “The drug dealers working with the constables were identified as Amjad Khan and Akhil Raj. They have been taken into custody,” said police.
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Family-run burglary gang busted in Thane; 3 arrested, 2 minors detained
Thane (PTI): Two men and a teen have been arrested and their minor sons detained for allegedly carrying out a series of house break-ins and burglaries in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Sunday.
Earlier this week, the Mahatma Phule Chowk (MFC) police in Kalyan busted a family-run burglary ring in which the men scouted for locked houses and directed their sons to break in and steal valuables, a senior police official said.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (Kalyan) Ashok Honmane said that the police have arrested a 19-year-old man, two fathers and detained two minors, and recovered stolen gold ornaments worth Rs 21.6 lakh.
The matter came to light following a complaint lodged on May 8 in Kalyan West, following which a case of housebreaking and theft was subsequently registered, he said.
Acting on tip-offs, the police arrested Kailas Vilas Bhalerao (19), a resident of Mohane in Ambivali, on May 13, and detained two minors aged 14 and 15 years, the official said.
"Interrogation revealed that the fathers, Vilas Prakash Bhalerao (38) and Deepak Ashok Jadhav (40), used their daily jobs to recce houses in residential societies and would then pass on this specific information to their children," he said.
The arrested teen accused would target the houses along with the minors and decamp with cash and jewellery.
Investigations have revealed that the gang was involved in at least three other burglaries in the Kalyan area, the official said.
