Munikrishna

The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday arrested Banaswadi police inspector GH munikrishna after he was caught accepting bribe from a businessman at his chamber in the police station.

Workers of Veecrew, the firm hired by Chilume Educational and Rural Development Institute to conduct illegal house surveys and electoral revision work in one ward in Bengaluru, had approached Mahadevapura police on November 10 seeking help in getting their salaries released.

Chilume Educational Cultural and Rural Development Institute, the NGO roped in by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to help revise electoral rolls and which now stands accused of illegally collecting voter data, outsourced its work to vendors and ordered at least one of them to carry out detailed house surveys, workers involved in the exercise told ToI

The special court conducting trials in the Dandupalya gang cases sentenced 11 members to death on Thursday. Special judge H R Srinivas convicted them in 14 cases, including 10 murders.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered cases against two bank officials in Karnataka for `alleged' financial irregularities.

The student strength of the government high school at Addagal in Mandikal hobli of Chikkaballapur taluk has more than doubled in three years, thanks to the efforts of a mathematics teacher. He spends Rs 12,000 every month to provide transport facilities to nearly 40 students.

In a pre-dawn operation, police opened fire on a robber who attacked them near Chikkabanavara, north Bengaluru, on Tuesday.

A woman was found hanging at her residence in A Narayanapura near Mahadevapura on Thursday morning. Vimala, 40, had married munikrishna 15 years ago and they had a 10-year-old son.

BANGALORE: Four people died in a mudslide reported in Karanji village in Vijayapura police limits on the outskirts of Bangalore on Tuesday evening.

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped while she was returning home from school.This happened in Kuppur village, Malur taluk, Kolar district.

The Karnataka high court has acquitted the members of dreaded Dandupalya gang in relation to one more case arising out of Mysore .

A 26-year-old sales executive was arrested and MDMA worth Rs 35 lakh seized. Munafis KP alias Tony, a resident of HBR Layout and native of Kerala, was deported from Dubai in March. He was working as a sales executive in the Gulf country since 2018 and arrested in a drug case there.

A division bench headed by the Chief Justice on Monday directed BDA to take action against the officers responsible for grant of alternative site to Walter B Roche of OMBR Layout in total violation of BDA site allotment rules.

BANGALORE: Certain popular restaurants, shopping arcades and entertainment spots situated in the basements of some multi-storeyed buildings will be in the eye of the storm soon for an altogether different reason.

BANGALORE: The dreaded Dandupalya gang has been convicted for another murder. Six members of the gang headed by Dandupalya Krishna were sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment by the 4th Sessions Judge, B. Yoginath here on Saturday.

A special court in Central Prison, Parappana Agrahara, on Thursday sentenced to life five members of the dreaded Dandupalya gang, in relation to the murder of Geetha, in Kamakshipalya police limits in November 2000.

The second additional district and sessions judge (Kolar) on Saturday wrote a new chapter in the state’s legal annals by awarding death sentence to five child rapists in two cases.

BANGALORE: A Bangalore sessions court on Wednesday sentenced five members of the dreaded Dandupalya gang to life imprisonment in a murder case.

Rowdy Malayali Madhu and his associates, who were arrested on July 15 by Kumaraswamy Layout police, reportedly switched from heinous crimes to drug peddling to meet their daily expenses.

Three siblings drowned in a lake while a fourth child was found missing after they went out to play on Saturday. There was no one at home to attend to the children as their mother was in hospital for her delivery and their father had died a month ago.

A missing 24-year-old Royal Field showroom mechanic, who went missing on September 16, was allegedly murdered over his affair with a married woman.

In a clear case of government agencies working at cross purposes, a team of BBMP officials who were conducting soil testing at Freedom Park for a proposed underground multi-level parking lot were chased out by policemen on duty.

Five of the 11 convicted Dandupalya killers have been sentenced to death and are currently in Hindalga jail, Belgaum.

BANGALORE: A love story, a marriage and a police station, all in one string!

Four incidents of burglary were reported in the city on Wednesday.