Bengaluru: ATM cash van driver escapes with Rs 75 lakh

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November 8, 2018

Bengaluru, Nov 8: Kadugondanahalli police are on the lookout for a driver employed with a cash management firm, who is allegedly on the run after he stole Rs. 75 lakh in cash that was to be deposited in ATMs on Monday. According to the police, the accused, Abdul Shahid, was a driver at Writer Safeguard Private Limited and had been deployed to drive a van with Rs. 1.2 crore in cash on November 5.

He, along with staff members Srishaila, Harish and gunman Janith Singh, started the rounds and deposited cash in ATMs along the route.

When the team reached an ATM on Nagawara main road, as per protocol, the gunman and the two employees unloaded the cash boxes and entered the kiosk, leaving Shahid in the van with Rs. 75 lakh. On returning, they found that Shahid had abandoned the vehicle. A trunk and two bags of cash were missing.

Srishaila alerted the branch in-charge of the company, who filed a complaint with Kadugodi police. “We have taken up a case under criminal breach of trust and cheating and efforts are on to trace Shahid,” said the police. “We suspect more people were involved as one man cannot escape with a metal trunk and two cash bags.”

The police are verifying CCTV footage from the area to ascertain how Shahid escaped.

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Suresh
 - 
Thursday, 8 Nov 2018

ATM cash thieves are fools. Huge amount of money they cant use easily (not even in banks) and the serial numbers of cash already noted by the agency.

Sandeep Ullal
 - 
Thursday, 8 Nov 2018

Police will catch him easily. 

Vinod
 - 
Thursday, 8 Nov 2018

Only in India such incidents repeatedly happening. And no govt taking preventive security systems

Ganesh
 - 
Thursday, 8 Nov 2018

Why this happens all the time. Govt should do something for uncrackable security system

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Mangaluru, May 21: The third repatriation flight from Dubai to Mangaluru will operate on Saturday, May 23, confirmed union minister D V Sadananda Gowda. This will operate via Bengaluru.

The first and second direct repatriation flights from Dubai had landed at Mangaluru International Airport on May 12 and May 18. There were more than 175 passengers on board each of these flights.

On May 23, Air India flight (IX 0384) will take off at Dubai at 4:30 p.m. and land at Bengaluru at 9:50 p.m. It will again take off at 10:50 p.m. and land at Mangaluru at 11:45 p.m.

However, ministry of civil aviation sources said that no final decision has been taken about carrying passengers by these flights to Mangaluru.

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March 16,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 16: Hundreds of people gathered to felicitate the newly appointed Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president DK Shivakumar in Bengaluru on Monday.

"Everyone is a team, I'm not alone. We all are together and we will work together," Kumar had said after his appointment.

Shivakumar was appointed as the chief of Karnataka Congress last week on Wednesday.

Party leaders Eshwar Khandre, Satish Jarkiholi and Saleem Ahmed were appointed working presidents of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.

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January 24,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 24: Aditya Rao, who was arrested for planting Improvised explosive device (IED) at Mangaluru airport on January 20, was brought to the airport on Friday for recreation of the crime scene as part of the investigation process.

Yesterday, one more case was registered against Rao in connection with a hoax call to the terminal manager of the airport on January 20, police said.

"One more case has been registered against Aditya Rao at Bajpe Police station for a hoax call to the terminal manager of Mangaluru International Airport on January 20," said PS Harsha, Mangalore Commissioner of Police on Thursday.

Earlier, Harsha informed that Rao, who surrendered before the Bengaluru Police, is now in the custody of Mangaluru Police.

"Our investigation team arrested Aditya Rao in Bengaluru in connection with the planting of an explosive device at Mangaluru airport. We produced the accused before Bengaluru's first JMFC court and the court issued a transit warrant," Harsha said.

"We have brought him to Mangaluru from Bengaluru and now the accused is in our custody. Our investigation team will interrogate him. We will investigate all aspects. He will be produced before Mangaluru 6th JMFC Court," he added.

Rao hails from Udupi and has engineering and MBA degrees.

According to the police, the IED was recovered from a bag at the Mangaluru airport. It was later defused in an open field by the personnel of the bomb disposal squad.

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