Drag-racing kills teenager, injures his 2 friends

DHNS
September 18, 2017

Bengaluru, Sept 18: Drag-racing turned tragic for three minors as one of them was killed on the spot, while the other two sustained serious injuries on Saturday night.

The deceased is Arfan (16), while the injured are Srinivas (16) and Anirudh (16). They are being treated at a private hospital.

Arfan's father Saleem is a businessman, while Srinivas' father Govindaraju and Anirudh's father Krishnamurthy are IT professionals.

Arfan and Srinivas stayed with their parents at an apartment in Devarachikkanahalli, while Anirudh is a resident of HSR Layout. The trio are I PU students in separate private colleges, police said.

The police have arrested Anirudh and Srinivas for reckless driving. Govindaraju and Krishnamurthy have been held for allowing the teenagers to drive the cars.

They drove the cars up and down the elevated flyover in Electronics City. They reached Rupena Agrahara around 2.45 am, minutes before the accident, police said.

"Srinivas was driving the Toyota Innova in the middle of the road, while towards his left Arfan was driving a Skoda. Anirudh was driving a Swift Dezire on Srinivas' right side," said a senior police officer.

All the three cars were moving at a speed of over 160 kmph. Srinivas lost balance and his vehicle collided with the Skoda and Swift Dezire. Arfan was killed on the spot due to serious injuries.

One of the cars jumped to the other side of the road median due to the impact the accident. It crashed into a mini goods vehicle coming from the opposite direction. Later, it toppled, police said. The goods vehicle driver abandoned the vehicle and fled.

The Madivala traffic police have registered a case under IPC Sections 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way), 304 A (causing death by negligence) 109 (abetment) and Sections 189 (racing and trials of speed) and 180 (allowing unauthorised persons to drive vehicles) of the Indian Motor Vehicles Act.

Engg student killed in accident

An engineering student was killed on the spot after the bike in which he was riding pillion rammed the parapet wall of a flyover in Yelahanka.

The victim, Basavaraj (21), a native of Koppal, was a fifth semester student of a private engineering college.

Basavaraj and his friends were returning after visiting Skandagiri Hill near Doddaballapur in different vehicles.

The accident occurred in front of Vidyashilpa School on the flyover. The rider sustained minor injuries. He is being treated at a private hospital.

Alert public help cops nab 'killer' driver

An alert car driver and his friend helped police arrest a lorry driver while he was trying to flee after mowing down a two-wheeler rider.

Based on the timely help by Girish K N and his friend Murali Prasad, both residents of Tumakuru, the police arrested Parameshwaraiah (57), the lorry driver.

According to the police, Parameshwaraiah was driving the lorry from MES Railway Gate to Gorguntepalya. He mowed down Santosh (21) near the railway gate and drove away.

Girish, who witnessed the accident, informed his friend Murali at Nelamangala on the phone, asking him to stop the lorry. Murali halted the lorry by waylaying it and also informed the police. The lorry didn't have the number plate. The traffic police felicitated Girish and Murali for their help.

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Remya
 - 
Monday, 18 Sep 2017

A trio of 16 year olds drag racing in Bengaluru at 2:45 AM? Driving fancy and expensive cars? "All three boys, studying in leading international schools and belonging to high profile families, went in three cars for a ride". These are kids, and I do not want to comment on WHO should be held responsible for their actions, even though in my heart I know who is accountable. This should open eyes of anyone who thinks their 16 year old kids should have access to their vehicles, let alone at 2:45 AM. Afran - RIP.

Shivaranjini
 - 
Monday, 18 Sep 2017

Agree police have to monitor and try to prevent such accidents. But You cannot monitor everywhere nor should they be made responsible for the irresponsible behavior of teeangers and their parents. People should be self-disciplined. They should know that they may be paying irrecoverable price for such jolly rides. 
RIP Arfan

Manjunath
 - 
Monday, 18 Sep 2017

The traffic police should be more alert in stopping such reckless driving. They have cameras all over the place. They have a cell monitoring them. If they were doing their job by concentrating on such speeding on flyovers they could have arrested these boys even before the accident occurred.

Moorthi
 - 
Monday, 18 Sep 2017

Another incident of spoilt brats of rich parents. It is the parents fault in giving the vehicle key to their underage wards who have no license to drive. In this case the parents should be arrested and put behind bars for their negligence. During early morning one can see under age children driving a car, or a scooter, while the cop if present turns a blind eye.

Sandesh
 - 
Monday, 18 Sep 2017

Few more unruly bikers and drag racers killed... God is great.

Vijay
 - 
Monday, 18 Sep 2017

Well deserved faith for ignorant parents. They will regret their whole life and serve as an example for few other ignorant parents.

Ganesh
 - 
Monday, 18 Sep 2017

Good. All three should have died, else they would be threat to innocent travelers on the road. Those taking risks should die and not innocent victims on road.No sympathy at all. It's unbelievable that parents cant track their kids in the night. If they seriously can't , then they deserve the repercussions.

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February 17,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 17: The Karnataka govt has set up an exclusive helpline 104 'Arogya Sahayavani' for Coronavirus assistance to people with recent travel history to China and other affected countries, a statement said here on Monday.

According to the statement, the Karnataka Department of Family and Welfare set up the exclusive helpline 104, 'Arogya Sahayavani' on Sunday. People, who recently traveled to China and other affected countries and who have developed symptoms of Covid-19 virus are requested to immediately contact 104–Arogya Sahayavani or the health authorities and provide all necessary details in order to take precautionary measures.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the recent novel Coronavirus (COVID 2019) as an International Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

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February 5,2020

Bidar, Feb 5: The police has intensified investigation into the 'sedition case' against the management and staff of a school here, where children are facing chare of insulting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others, in the context of CAA, in a drama they staged on January 21.

The police again visited Shaheen School on Tuesday and questioned children and staff -- this time in plain clothes, after their questioning of children in uniform on January 28 drew criticism from some quarters, a school official said.

"Morning three police personnel came with two members of Karnataka State Child Rights Protection Commission. Later, the deputy superintendent of police H Basaveshwara joined them.

The cops were in civil dress," the official said.

The police have been questioning the children and staff about those who wrote the script and assigned to deliver specific dialogues.

Police have already arrested Nazbunnisa, the mother of one of the children, who had allegedly delivered the controversial dialogue and their teacher Fareeda Begum, who oversaw the event.

When contacted, the deputy superintendent of police of Bidar H Basaveshwara refused to comment on the matter saying that he was still investigating the case.

Meanwhile in Bengaluru, Congress MLA and former minister U T Khader slammed the BJP government in the state as well as the Centre for "filing sedition charges against people".

Addressing a press conference, he alleged that the Central and state governments were trying to suppress the voice of people in the country using law enforcement agencies.

Khader claimed that the two women who "depicted the problems they were facing" in the drama were booked under the sedition law. During investigation, the children were forced to sit at the police station, he alleged.

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Ahmed Ali K.
 - 
Wednesday, 5 Feb 2020

Why No questions asked in Kalladka Prabhakar Batta school where the school childrens asked to show a demo of Babri Masjid demolition?

 

Why the police did'nt question the teacher team, Principal and the owner of the school??

 

because both schools owned by different people....!!

Indian Democracy.........................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

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July 10,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 10: With 2,313 more people testing positive for coronavirus in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, its overall tally of patients rose to 33,418 on Friday, health officials said.

57 patients died in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, with majority (27) of them from Bengaluru, taking the state''s death toll to 543, the officials added.

Bengaluru accounted for 1,447 or 63 per cent of the new COVID-19 cases, spiking its tally to 15,329, out of which 11,687 are active cases.

The city alone accounts for 46 per cent of all the cases in the state.

As many as 45 deaths had Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) as a common symptom.

Among the new cases, excluding Bengaluru, Dakshina Kannada accounted for 139 infections, followed by Vijayapura (89), Ballari (66), Kalaburagi (58), Yadgir and Mysuru (51 each) among others.

On Friday, a record 1,003 patients got discharged, 601 of them in Bengaluru alone with the total number of discharges rising up to 13,836.

Until now, Karnataka has tested 7.79 lakh samples for Covid, out of which 7.28 lakh tested negative.

Despite the record number of discharges, patients in ICU rose to 472.

Of the 33,418 cases, 19,035 are active in the state.

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