Mar 24: 2,298 new COVID-19 cases in Karnataka, 12 deaths
Bengaluru, Mar 24: For the second consecutive day on Wednesday, Karnataka logged over 2,000 fresh cases, reporting 2,298 new infections and 12 related fatalities.
With the addition of the new cases, the caseload mounted to 9,75,955 and the toll to 12,461, a health department bulletin said.
The state reported 2,010 cases on Tuesday.
A total of over 2,06,74,133 samples have been tested so far, out of which 1,08,013 were tested on Wednesday alone.
Bengaluru Urban accounted for 1,398 cases today.
The day also saw 995 patients getting discharged after recovery, taking the cumulative tally to 9,46,589 discharges.
According to the bulletin, out of 16,886 active cases, 16,743 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and stable, while 143 are in ICU.
Seven deaths were reported from Bengaluru Urban today, Mysuru 2, and one each from Dharwad, Kalaburagi and Koppal.
Kalaburagi accounted for 118 cases, Tumakuru 94, Bidar 82, Udupi 79, Mysuru 74, Hassan 60, followed by others.
Bengaluru Urban district tops the list of positive cases, with a total of 4,21,236, followed by Mysuru 55,046 and Ballari 39,566.
Among discharges too, Bengaluru Urban tops the list with 4,05,152, followed by Mysuru 53,550 and Ballari 38,805.
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Four held for robbing man in Bengaluru by posing as police
Bengaluru (PTI): Four people have been arrested for allegedly posing as police and robbing a man of over Rs 1 lakh, officials said.
According to the police, the robbery had occurred at the Vidyaranyapura police station limits on December 7.
"A person had filed a robbery case stating that when he was alone at home on December 7, three people came to his house and one of them was wearing a Police Sub Inspector uniform, while the other two claimed to be constables. They accused the person of indulging in illegal activities like selling ganja," Sajeeth VJ, DCP North East Division Bengaluru said on Sunday.
Speaking to reporters, he said, they threatened him, and took Rs 55,000 cash that was at home and Rs 87,000 through online transfer.
The accused persons also searched the house and made a video recording, he said. A case was registered based on a complaint, and four persons have been arrested in this regard.
Police have seized a car and a two-wheeler and Rs 45,000 cash from the accused.
The accused have been identified as Mallikarjun S (27), Promod V (30), and Vinay H T (36), who posed as police, and Hruthvik P (24), who assisted them, police said.
The robbery was allegedly planned based on a tip-off from Hrithvik, who had been observing the victim.
According to the DCP, the main accused, Mallikarjun, who is from Ballari district, was a PSI aspirant and had also written the exam for the post in 2021-22, but did not succeed. Since then, he had been posing as a police officer, wearing a uniform, in his village near Siraguppa in Ballari.
