KN Police: Banglore Police: " देखा है कहीं ऐसा रिश्वत देने वाला", इस खदान मालिक ने तो तोड़े सारे रिकार्ड, दी 617 अधिकारियों को घूस

A single mine operator, Karapadi Mahesh, whose name figures prominently in the Lokayukta's final report, paid bribes amounting to Rs. 2.27 crore to 617 government officials. This is revealed in Book 14 of the detailed report, which was the basis of the Lokayukta's findings. The 89-page document reveals that the first bribes were paid in June 2007 — Rs. 5 lakh to the Assistant Conservator of Forests and Rs. 20,000 to the “C F Office”.

The 617 persons named in their official capacity are from every department that had some responsibility of oversight related to mining activities. The usual suspects — officials from various levels of the police department, the RTO, the Forest Department, Mines and Geology — are all there in the report. A significant entry in the list is that of “Muniram Lokayukta Hospet,” who was found to have received a bribe of Rs. 18.5 lakh from Karaupdi Mahesh between November and December 2009. The biggest amounts in the list were to “Bijapur kane” (Rs. 13.72 lakh), “Bijapur & Bagalkot & Belgaum Line (Rs. 5.37 lakh and Rs. 3 lakh listed separately), and an Additional SP (Rs. 4.2 lakh paid between December 2009 and Febriary 2010)). The report points out that some of the entries in the list were paid by the Associated Mining Company, a company that was closely associated with the former Tourism Minister G. Janardhan Reddy.

The report of the investigating team pertaining to this single mine owner unveils the “unholy nexus of bribing” in several districts of the State “all along the roads from Bellary to Krishnapatnam.” The bribes were paid in return for a range of favours — not checking overloading, trip sheets, way permits, for allowing removal of ore beyond the permitted quantity, evasion of royalty payments and other State taxes. The individuals who received the bribes from all levels of the government machinery.

The same report also provides a detail account of the manner in which Karapadi Mahesh, Govind (Govindanna) and their associates were paid “risk” money by entities purchasing the illegally mined ore.

The report notes that the investigation, which began at Belekeri port in February 2010, “was a turning point.” The payments of “risk” money received by Karapadi Mahesh and his associates is enumerated in a list of 382 instances. In all, they were paid Rs. 40.93 crore by those who bought the illegally extracted and transported ore. A third table in this section of the report lists 93 trading entities that engaged in illegal trade with Karapadi Mahesh and his associates amounting to Rs. 62.92 crore.

KN Police: Banglore Police: wife shot herself with his service pistol, now Police Inspector to face departmental enquiry

A departmental inquiry is being contemplated by the East Division police against the Commercial Street Police Inspector Sudarshan, whose wife shot herself to death with his service pistol here on Sunday.

Mr. Sudarshan's wife, Shubha (36), ended her life at their house in Gururaja Layout near Banashankari.

“An officer is not supposed to allow [others] to use his service weapon. The police manual states the officer should take care of his weapon. Also, the manual warns of action if anyone misuses it,” an East Division police official said.

According to another official, a police inspector is given a maximum of 30 bullets at a time, and it is his responsibility to manage the weapon and bullets safely.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (South Division) Sonia Narang said: “It was a case of suicide. Ballistic experts of the Forensic Science Department conducted an inquiry on Sunday. The police is expecting their report.” She, however, added that the South Division would send a report on the death to the East Division.

Gujrat Police: दो सीनियर पुलिस अधिकारियों ने दिए बयान, 2002 दंगों के लिए नही थे नरेंद्र मोदी के विशेष आदेश

Even as the G.T. Nanavati-Akshay Mehta judicial inquiry commission probing the 2002 Gujarat communal riots hinted that Chief Minister Narendra Modi could be summoned for cross-examination, two senior government officials testified before it on Monday denying that Mr. Modi issued any “specific instructions” to the police in handling the riots.

The then Home Secretary, K. Nityanandam, and the then Additional Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Anil Mukim, also contradicted IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's claim that he was “present” at a meeting convened by Mr. Modi at his residence on the night of February 27, 2002, in which the Chief Minister reportedly “instructed” the police officers to go soft on Hindu rioters.

“I am not aware of Mr. Modi having issued any such instructions,” Mr. Mukim said. Mr. Nityanandam maintained that the Chief Minister did not issue any “specific instructions” to the police but only “discussed” about the prevailing law and order situation in the light of the “Gujarat bandh” called for the next day.

Both Mr. Mukim and Mr. Nityanandam, who testified before the Commission separately, gave almost identical list of the officials present at the February 27 meeting. According to them, the only officials present at the meeting were the then acting Chief Secretary, Suvarnakanta Verma; Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Ashok Narayan; the then Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, P.K. Mishra; the then Director-General of Police, K. Chakravarthi; and the then Ahmedabad Police Commissioner, P.C. Pande.

Mr. Mukim said he was “briefly” present at the meeting at the beginning but left later. Mr. Nityanandam said “some officials of the CMO” kept “coming and going” from the meeting and “there was none else present.” He said neither the then Minister of State for Home, Gordhan Jhadaphia, nor the then Joint Secretary (Home) Prakash Shah, was present at the meeting. Also no member of the then Modi Cabinet was present.

“KNEW BHATT BY FACE”

To a question by Congress' counsel Hiralal Gupta, Mr. Mukim said he never had any interaction with Mr. Bhatt but “knew” him “by face.”

Both Mr. Mukim and Mr. Nityanandam said they were not aware if any minutes of the meeting had been kept, and if so by whom, but insisted that they were not asked to sign any paper to indicate their presence in the meeting. “No such procedure was followed for such meetings then,” Mr. Nityanandam said.

When advocate for riots victims Mukul Sinha asked Mr. Nityanandam why was he called for the meeting as the Home Secretary he was not in charge of law and order, he said it was for Mr. Ashok Narayan to decide. “I was telephonically told by Mr. Narayan in my office to attend the meeting, and I attended,” he said.

Later Justice Nanavati, talking to Dr. Sinha and other advocates, dropped a broad hint about the possibility of summoning Mr. Modi. Stating that he was keen on winding up the proceedings of the commission at the earliest, Justice Nanavati told Dr. Sinha: “Now only one witness remains to be summoned after the then Health Minister, I.K. Jadeja — Mr. Narendra Modi.” Mr. Jadeja is due to appear before the Commission on September 5.

Dr. Sinha had demanded summoning of Mr. Modi and senior police and administrative officials for cross-examination.

A petition seeking a direction to the Commission to summon Mr. Modi is pending before the Gujarat High Court.

MP Police: Indore: इंदौर में नकली नोटों का जखीरा ज़ब्त, क्या इंस्पेक्टर जयंत राठौर को मिलेगी शाबासी?

INDORE: Police busted a fake currency racket and arrested a man with fake currency notes worth about Rs 1 lakh of different denominations. The accused has confessed that he along with an accomplice has already used Rs 2.5 lakh in the market.

According to the police the accused has confessed to having brought the fake currency note from Maharashtra.

Superintendent of Police (West) D Sreenivasa Verma said that the Crime branch DSP Jitendra Singh received information that a few people were selling fake currencies in exchange of lesser amount. Following the information he directed inspector Jayant Rathore and sub-inspector Manishrajsingh Bhadauria to investigate the case.

The investigating team found that one Naresh Pawar, who was earlier arrested for the same crime, was active again along with one of his friend named Bunti. The team contacted the duo posing as customers. The accused asked for Rs 40,000 in original currency in exchange for fake currency notes worth Rs 1 lakh. The crime branch team accepted the offer. Initially, the accused made the crime branch team to go from one place to another. At last they called the team at LIG crossing, where the team arrested the Bunti with a bag containing the fake currency. Naresh Kumar, however, managed to escape. The crime branch also recovered fake currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 100 denominations from the residence of the accused in Nehru Nagar. Bunti has also been arrested earlier under Arms Act.

Delhi Police: Traffic police announce new speed limits for Delhi roads

In order to control the unregulated plying of vehicles on city roads, the Delhi Traffic Police has issued a notification to regulate their speed. New speed limits have been set for motor vehicles, including autorickshaws, on 25 roads across the state.

“Motor vehicles ply at a high speed on NCR roads, endangering the lives of motorists as well as other road users. Hence, it was necessary for us to regulate the speed of motor vehicles for their safety,” a senior traffic official said.

Speaking on the subject, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Satyendra Garg said, “We decrease or increase the speed limit in various areas, keeping in mind the traffic pattern and movement there. Congestion, number of accidents and nature of the area are a few of the factors that help us decide on the limit.”

In some areas, such as the NH-8 stretch from Gurgaon Road crossing to Delhi Gurgaon Border and the DND Flyover-Mayur Vihar Link Road, the speed limit for regular vehicles has been reduced from 80 kmph to 70 kmph, and that for autorickshaws has been reduced to 40 kmph. In other places, such as NH-10 (Rohtak road), NH-I (from Singhu Border to Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar) and Ring Road (from Ashram Chowk to Azadpur Flyover via Dhaula Kuan), the speed limit has been increased from 50 kmph to 60 kmph. Inside all residential and commercial areas, the speed limit for cars, jeeps and two wheelers has been increased from 23 to 30 kmph, police said.

Gujrat Police: Ahmedabad Police: Ahmedabad traffic police on Facebook from today

AHMEDABAD: For all those Facebook aficionados who are trying to bring in some positive changes on city roads, here is a good news: today onwards, the daily live updates will be done by constables of city traffic police from 10 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 6 pm everyday.

The social networking site users can post complaints about traffic jams, illegal parking in buildings and individual violation cases. The official note was posted on Monday by the administrators that two constables have been appointed to maintain Facebook traffic.

Nilesh Jajadiya, deputy commissioner of police (traffic), told TOI that the efforts have been well appreciated by citizens. "We are getting good response and we want to keep up the spirit. While we have started forwarding major complaints such as non-functional traffic signals and basement encroachments to civic authorities, we will be able to handle individual complaints in a month's time after a linking system with RTO gets functional," he said.

Talking about the system, the traffic police officials said that a database of the complaints will be made along with photographic or video evidences from the site. The database will then be compared with the existing RTO registrations to identify the vehicle owners and address. The challan then can be sent directly to the offender. While the primary testing will take place earlier next month, the officials are hopeful of its implementation soon.

The Facebook message states that three complaints, posted by the users, were forwarded to concerned police inspectors and assistant commissioners of police (traffic). The complaints where the users posted photos of policemen flouting traffic rules will be supervised by deputy commissioner of police. The register is also maintained about the complaints coming in.

The interaction has started on the site as when a user posted a question about whether to keep the vehicle registration book (RC book) with him as his is with a finance company, the administrators said that there are less chances of him getting caught if he is not violating any rules. However, they emphasized that the rider should have an RC book as a requirement. The posts also signified that the users should also mention time and place while posting photos.

WB Police: Maoist-hit police stations in WB likely to get more central aid

The West Bengal government has sent grant proposals to the Centre for upgrading police stations and improving infrastructure in three Maoist-hit districts.

“We have sent a proposal for upgradation of 18 police stations in West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia under a newly launched Central scheme for the Maoist-hit areas,” Inspector General of Police (Organisation), Kuldeep Singh said.

“Under the scheme, Rs two crore will be provided for construction, upgradation and fortification of dilapidated police station areas,” he said.

“So far, the Central government has given the aid to 400 police stations spread over 83 districts in eight Maoist-hit states,” Mr. Singh said.

Among the 18 police stations earmarked for upgradation in Bengal, eight are in West Midnapore district including Binpur, Jhargram, Sankrial, Kotwali, Lalgarh, Goaltore, Keshyari and Gopiballavpur.

The six police stations in Purulia are Arsha, Bundwan, Jhalda and Khatshila and the rest four from Bankura are Simlipal, Ranibandh, Sarenga and Raipur.

Asked whether this fund will be used only for infrastructure development, Mr. Singh said, “Apart from infrastructure, sophisticated firearms and equipment will also be purchased.”

The State government has also sought nearly Rs 10 crore under Centre’s Special Infrastructure scheme — meant mainly for development of police stations, out—posts and camps in far—flung areas in Maoist—hit districts.

This scheme was started in 2006 for construction of roads, fortification of jails, renovation of police stations and out-posts and making of camps in those remote areas.

“The State began getting grant under this scheme from 2009—10 when the Centre pumped in Rs 10.6 crore which was raised to Rs 12.86 crore in 2010—11 financial year,” the top cop said.

While in the first year, the fund was used mainly for developing those facilities in West Midnapore, from the next year Bankura and Purulia were also included.

However, this year’s plea for about Rs 10 crore is yet to be sanctioned, Mr. Singh informed.

Apart from these two special grants, the union government gave an aid of Rs 626.34 crore in the 2010-11 financial year, Rs 162 crore in 2009—10 and Rs 244 crore in 2008-09 under various schemes for development in the Left-wing extremism (LWE) affected states.