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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

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June 30,2020

Visakhapatnam, Jun 30: Two people were killed and four others were taken ill after benzene gas leaked at a pharmaceutical company at Parawada near here early on Tuesday morning, official sources said.

The situation was now under control as the leak was restricted to one unit in the Sainor Life Sciences company, the sources said.

The two killed were senior employees of the company, they said.

The injured persons have been admitted to a hospital in Gajuwaka, with one of them being put on ventilator support, the sources added.

District Collector V Vinay Chand and Police Commissioner R K Meena visited the company to take stock of the situation.

The cause of the leak that took place in a reactor unit at the plant is yet to be established.

The incident comes nearly two months after 11 people were killed and over 1000 taken ill after gas leak at a chemical plant here.

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February 5,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 5: City Crime Branch (CCB) of Bengaluru City have arrested two drug peddlers from Kerala and have seized banned products from their possession.

According to officials the arrested persons have been identified as Shinto Thomas (35) of Wayanad and Tajudden Talat (29) of Thiruvananthapuram.

"We have seized 4 kg 350 grams of Hashish oil, 21.5 kgs of Ganja, Rs. 9300 cash, two mobile phones, two ganja crushing tools, and 625 empty boxes and other articles from them", police said in a statement.

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April 5,2020

Nagpur, Apr 5: A 23-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Imambada area in Nagpur on Saturday due to financial distress, police said.

Nikhil Gavhane, who worked in a grocery shop, hanged himself as he had taken money from a person and was stressed over repayment, an official said.

"He was depressed since a week," the Imambada police station official said.

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