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Terror plot convict gets life imprisonment

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October 6, 2016

Bengaluru, Oct 6: A Bengaluru court on Wednesday sentenced Bilal Ahmed Kota alias Imran Jalal, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, to life imprisonment. He is convicted for hatching a criminal conspiracy to attack Information Technology companies and other installations in Bengaluru.

TerrorAdditional city civil court judge Kotrayya M Hiremath had convicted Bilal on all charges, including criminal conspiracy, possession of assault rifles, ammunition and hand grenades on Tuesday.

The court sentenced Bilal to undergo life imprisonment, which is the maximum punishment awarded for the charges proved against him and slapped a fine of Rs 2.75 lakh on him.

Prime accused in the case, Bilal was arrested by the anti-terrorism cell of the Bengaluru police on January 5, 2007.

Five other accused in the case are absconding, including Pakistani nationals Alqama alias Lala Khan, Khalid and Azam Cheema. A native of Jammu and Kashmir, Bilal had travelled to Pakistan in September 2005 using a fake passport. Bilal had received directions from LeT commanders to carry out a recce of IT companies, Vidhana Soudha and the airport in Bengaluru.

After his return from Pakistan, Bilal created e-mail IDs to communicate with his handlers there. The police had retrieved 68 pages of e-mail printouts from a cyber centre at Hampi in Ballari district.

“In one of the e-mails, Bilal had requested LeT's operational commander Lala Khan to financially help the family of Tariq Dar, who was arrested in the Delhi blast case. In another e-mail, Bilal confirmed receiving Rs 50,000 from Khan,” an official said.

Bilal was arrested at Yeshwantpur in Bengaluru, when he was alighting from a private bus that arrived from Hampi. The police had seized an AK-47 rifle, 200 rounds of ammunition and a satellite phone from him.

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Rikaz
 - 
Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

wrong doers should be punished irrespective of their cast, community, religion....but innocents should be spared...most of the time we have seen police arresting Muslims randomly because of their muslim background, this is bad, that should not happen, must be stopped once and for all...

hamiii
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

good.....pre planned story, i think we can make a film about this issue,,

if any minister visit to pakistan there will be no issue..

if any other indian people visit to pakistan then he is a terrist..?

Moorthy
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

Bopanna.................Still you are Bopanna.....Balvadi ge Hoganna.........when your people oppose Sharia saying Women and Men should go to one school and same time oppose seat sharing in Government and assaulting Sulya youth......pls let us know where you stand....before you talk about the Country which Muslims gave blood more than RSS ( in Fact RSS was fighting against Muslims in that Freedom struggle movement) ....and we never hoisted Pakistan Flag unlike Sindhagi....

Zainab
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

A muslim will NEVER do any sort of distress to others. Forget about terrorism. And BOPANNA, be grateful to Muslims atleast because they let you earn in Saudi and feed your family. Muslims are suppressed in India and that's why our brothers are still in jail. You know bopanna..every single person who was in TRUTH faced hardship from oppressive rulers..but in the end they won. So inn sha Allah..there will be a time when the oppressed Muslims will have victory.

Zeeshan Ali
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

Great work by anti terrorism cell. All national and international terrorist should be given capital punishment whatsoever..Commencement of Anti terrorism squad was a great move by the Maharashtra government and then later by other states. The first of its additional commissioner being Mr. Aftab Ahmed Khan.

Mohammed SS
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

Fake criminal charges imposed on him, he is innocent. Muslims always targeted.. all Muslims are innocent, patriots and true God believers who never harm anybody.. they always obey and respect their country and the law and order. we cannot change the opinions of the RSS mental people

Bopanna
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

Simply shows no Muslim can be trusted, their only love is for allah and 72 virgins. No love for the country they live in. Ungrateful wretched people.

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July 22,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 22: Karnataka's Covid-19 task force on Tuesday decided that the state government will regulate the supply of Remdesivir, the drug used in the treatment of coronavirus infected patients, to private hospitals to check black marketing and hoarding.

"Remdesivir which is currently available in the government hospitals will be supplied to private hospitals through the government.

This will help curb black marketing of this drug," Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar's office said in a release.

Along with Sudhakar, other task force members, including Health Minister Sriramulu, Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwath Narayan and Chief Secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar attended the meeting. However, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai was not part of it as he was out of Bengaluru.

At the meeting, the government has also fixed the rate for Covid-19 tests in private labs- Rs 2,000 for government referred cases and 3,000 for self-reporting cases.

It was also decided to purchase 4 lakh antigen test kits and 5 lakh swab test kits to ramp up testing, the release said, adding that approvals have also been given for additional drugs for the treatment of Covid-19 patients.

The decisions also included increasing monthly salary for Ayush doctors to 48,000, MBBS doctors to 80,000 and nurses to get 30,000 for next 6 months.

The task force also made it clear that private hospitals have to reserve 50 percent beds for the government for Covid-19 treatment. The remaining 50 percent can be used by the private hospitals for Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 treatment.

Private hospitals provide treatment under Ayushman Bharat scheme (ABARK) for Covid-19 patients.

Those cases in which treatment does not cover under the scheme can be charged as per the user charges, the release said.

A committee will be formed to supervise and recommend the purchase of equipment and medicines for Covid-19 treatment, which will be headed by ACS, ITBT Department.

Approval has been given for the procurement of N-95 masks and lakh PPE kits for the safety of healthcare workers. The decision also has been taken to connect oxygen pipeline to 4,736 beds in 17 government medical colleges, which will enable high flow oxygen for these beds besides being beneficial for future use as well.

According to the release, 16 RTPCR and 15 Automated RNA extraction units will be established to ramp up testing and this will help achieve the target of 50,000 tests per day. "On the whole approvals given for purchase of equipment and upgradation of existing facilities at government hospitals is estimated to be about Rs 500 Crore," it added.

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August 4,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 4: Police barricades, yellow banners, walls with a fresh coat of paint and the sounds of bhajan mark parts of Ayodhya as the city awaits its big day Wednesday, when the first brick will be laid for the Ram temple.

Ayodhya is decked up for the bhoomi pujan that will be attended at the Ram Janmabhoomi by 175 people, who figure in a select guest list of seers and politicians topped by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Concerned over the spread of coronavirus, the authorities are encouraging others not to come to the temple town, asking them to mark the occasion by celebrating at their homes. The groundbreaking ceremony will be telecast live.

Roads leading to Ayodhya display hoardings with the picture of the proposed Ram temple and of Ram Lalla, the infant Ram, the deity now housed in a makeshift temple.

Around the town’s Hanumangarhi area – named after a well-known temple which Modi will visit on Wednesday – both police sirens and ‘bhajans’ in praise of Ram are heard.

Most of the shops in the locality wear a new look, with their fronts painted in bright yellow. A large number of policemen were deployed there on Tuesday. Some sat in the sweet shops, waiting for their next instructions.

Roads leading into the area are barricaded. Yards of yellow cloth and marigold garlands were being hung on poles.

Even on the day before the event, security checks on vehicles heading to Ayodhya begin from adjoining Barabanki district itself on the Lucknow-Ayodhya road. Policemen take down details, including mobile numbers of the travellers.

Senior Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar said the focus of the force is on maintaining the Covid-19 protocol.

“So we are not going to allow any outsider to enter Ayodhya city,” he said. Prohibitory orders are also in force and not more than four people will be allowed to gather.

“The markets and shops will remain open but with strict adherence to the Covid protocol,” he said. Outsiders will be stopped from entering the city, but Ayodhya residents will be allowed in if they produce any identification document.

“We are also carrying out random checks on people living in Ayodhya to ensure that no outsiders are staying here,” he said.

The city’s temples and mosques will remain open, but no other religious event – except for the bhoomi pujan – will take place on Wednesday.

Pickets have been set up at sensitive points in the city.

Sub-inspector Ram Chandra Yadav and constables Avnish Kumar and Ankit Chaudhary man the Terhi Bazar Chauraha picket near the Ram Janmabhoomi site.

"We are here for the past some days, and were on duty on the Rakshabandhan day. Duty comes first and only after that come other things in life, like festivals," Yadav said.

Mayank Gupta, who runs a restaurant, was handing out food packets to policemen, his customers.

"For the last two months, I have been providing tiffin to them twice a day. There are around 100 policemen to whom I supply tiffin," Gupta said.

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February 9,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 9: Six persons, including three Nigerian nationals, have been arrested for their involvement in a fake kidney racket, through which they duped over 300 people, police said on Sunday.

The case was cracked by a Special Investigating Team (SIT) headed by Banasawadi, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Raviprasad. These people had duped scores of people, by misusing the name of a well known hospital located in Bengaluru.

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