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Keralite who had worked as a cop in Bahrain held for Bengaluru jewellery shop theft

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July 19, 2017

Bengaluru: Jul 19: The Commercial Street police on Monday arrested a dismissed constable of the Bahrain police on the charge of stealing a set of six gold bangles from a jewellery shop on June 25.

The police gave the name of the arrested as Pilakal Nazir (55), a native of Kerala and resident of New Gurappanapalya here. He is a habitual offender and has cases against him in 11 police stations. The police said Nazir used to work as a police constable in Bahrain.

Posing as a businessman, Nazir went to Malabar Gold and Diamond shop on Commercial Street and escaped with a pack of six gold bangles, concealing it in his blazer. The Commercial Street police, who obtained the CCTV footage, identified Nazir. They set up a special team led by Inspector M Ramesh to track him down. The police finally nabbed Nazir on Monday.

The police have recovered four gold bangles worth Rs 3 lakh from him, along with a motorcycle and a scooter which he had stolen from a showroom in BTM layout.

Nazir was earlier arrested by the Madiwala police on charges of stealing a car from a showroom in Tamil Nadu after taking the car out for a test drive. He had come out on bail recently from Bengaluru Central Prisons at Parappana Agrahara, the police said.

It is learnt that he had worked as police constable in Bahrain from 1998 to 2006. He returned to Bengaluru after being sacked from the job. He has around a dozen cases against him in city police stations and one in Chennai.

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Abdullah
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Saturday, 22 Jul 2017

Hahahah..
He is a ....

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June 14,2020

Mandya, Jun 14: In a tragic incident, a woman and her two children were drowned in a pond at Beeranahalli village in Nagamangala taluk of this district on Sunday.

Police said that the deceased have been identified as Geeta (40), and her two children Savita(19) and Soumya(14).

Savaitha is a degree student while Soumya was studying in 9th standard. The trio drowned in a pond where they had gone to wash their cows. The locals rushed to the spot and tried to rescue them but could not save.

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Agencies
May 14,2020

Six migrant workers have been killed and five others seriously injured when a speeding bus ran over them on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway near in Muzaffarnagar, officials said on Thursday.

The accused driver, who was suspected to be under the influence of alcohol, has been arrested, said SSP Abhishek Yadav.

The workers were going on foot to their homes in Bihar from Haryana when they were hit on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway between Ghalili Check Post and Rohana Toll Plaza, about 20 km from here late last night, the official said.

The injured -- Sushil, Nathu Saini, Pawan Saini, Pramod and Ramji Rai --were rushed to hospital.

Two of the deceased were identified as Bijender, 25, and Harsh, 20. The rest were yet to be identified.

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February 16,2020

Five Bajrang Dal activists have been arrested for allegedly indulging in vandalism in the city on Valentines Day, police said.

They said about 10 to 15 activists on two wheelers vandalised a shop in Kattupalli area in Hyderabad on February 14.

They held aloft flags and raised slogans against celebration of Valentines Day and "created havoc" at different malls, a police press release said.

On receiving information, police rushed to a mall, but the Bajrang Dal activists escaped from the spot.

Five of them were later identified with the help of CCTV footage and arrested, police said.

The others too have been identified and efforts were on to nab them, police said.

Two cases have been registered against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code on a complaint from shop owners, the release said.

 

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