The next time you decide to go out of town for an extended period, it’s best to inform your local police station. They will send cops regularly on your street to keep a watch. Otherwise, you could become a victim like Kiran Kumar’s relatives in Sector 1, 24th Main, 9th Cross.
On April 3, 2019, Kiran’s uncle locked the house and left for the US. On the morning of July 18, Kiran’s neighbour called to inform him that sarees were thrown outside the main door of his uncle’s house.
When Kiran reached the spot, he found that someone had broken the door on the terrace to gain entry into the house. Upon further search, he found that 10 gram worth of gold items and several silver articles were missing from the premises.
BACK DOOR ENTRY TO STEAL SILVER ARTICLES In another incident, this time in Sector 4, R Nirmala found that when her mother in law and grand children left home to visit a relative’s house on June 29, they returned home the next day to find it burgled.
The back door was broken and the almirah was ransacked to steal silver items like plates, bowls, glasses, and a lamp.
Next time you are parking your vehicle anywhere, make sure you take your valuables with you. And ensure that you have properly rolled up the windows and locked all the doors of your car. Victim Lakshmi discovered this truth last month.
On June 29 at 6.30pm, Lakshmi Kaushik parked her Honda CRV car on Agara service road and left to be part of her friend’s birthday celebrations of their daughter.
When she returned around 8pm, the dickey door was open and three bags were found to be missing. The items that were in them included kids toys and clothes, artificial jewellery and gold jewellery (chain, necklace and earrings) and diamond necklace.
The worth of the stolen goods is not known. The 32-year-old victim is a resident of Sarjapur Road.
The HSR cops registered a case of robbery on July 3 and are investigating.
Phone snatching has caught up with phone snatching incidents across the city, and HSR Layout is no exception. Sometimes, drunk youth snatch mobiles from those walking on the roads with their handsets stuck to their ears. But most times, there are two-wheeler borne thieves who are waiting for hapless victims to use their phones, so they can approach them on the pretence of asking for directions and snatching their phone in the interim. The only way to prevent phone snatching is to avoid talking on public roads and take the footpaths instead. However, if you have to use the phone, stay alert for any slow movement of vehicles closer to you. If they are wearing helmets and on a two-wheeler, keep your phone away from them and be vigilant.
If you are not careful, you could lose your phone just like Ngamhao, a 20-year-old employee at Vegas Spa & Salon on 19th Main, Sector 2. On July 3 at 6.30pm, he was walking across the road in front of Bandepalya Police Station when two bike-borne thieves came from behind him and one of them snatched his Redmi phone and escaped on the two wheeler.
Usually mobile phone thefts don’t figure in the FIR as it’s considered a minor offence for which the state machinery will have to spend undue time. Such incidents are only taken as regular police complaints for insurance purposes. However, if the complainant insists, like it happened in the past to one lady (and we have reported about it), the cops are forced to take it as an FIR. The cops have registered a case of robbery under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 392. If the thieves are found and convicted, they could be in prison for ten years and also pay a fine.
Interestingly, while the incident took place in front of Bandepalya Police Station, the case was registered by the HSR Layout unit as the Bandepalya station is located in HSR Layout for want of space in its own territory.
Never leave your belongings out in the open even for a few minutes. One person discovered this harsh lesson when he lost his laptop kept on his bike. Similarly, HSR Layout has become a hotbed of bike thefts. Whether you park them in front of your house or inside your compound, or anywhere you visit in HSR, your bike is ripe for the picking. In 18 days, 9 bike thefts were reported stolen at the HSR police station. The thefts occurred between June 28, 2019 and July 16, 2018.
GONE IN 5 MINUTES
Beware! There are thieves loitering about everywhere in HSR Layout. Ajaya Gopal, a 36-year-old resident of Koramangala learnt this the hard way. On Jun 26, 2019, he parked his two wheeler opposite McDonald’s on 14th Main in Sector 3. The time was around 8.20pm. When he returned to his bike after about five minutes, one among the three bags he had kept on his bike had vanished. The bag contained his company’s Lenovo laptop, a pair of headphones and a towel. The cops have registered a case of theft and are investigating.
BIKE THEFTS GALORE ACROSS HSR LAYOUT
The first incident occurred on the night of June 28 on 26th A Cross, 26th Main, Sector 2. Shivaprasad NS, a resident of Yelahanka, had parked his Royal Enfield Class 350cc in front of a house at 10pm on June 28. When he returned at 8.30am on June 29, the bike was nowhere to be seen.
At 8.30pm on June 28, 21-year-old Lakshmikanth parked his TVS Victor inside the parking lot of BDA shopping complex in Sector 6. When he returned two days later at 9am, it was missing. This goes to show that even parking spots are not safe if you keep your bikes overnight.
On July 3 at around 1030am, Nitesh Kumar (21 years) parked his Honda Activa in front of Shahi Garments in Jakkasandra. When he returned the same day at around 3.30pm, the bike was missing.
On July 4 at 2pm, Prashanth Goel parked his Yamaha FZS in front of his house on 21st A Main, 15th C Cross. When he returned the next day at 1.40pm, the bike was missing from its place.
Thirty-year-old Mohd Shahbaaz was the next victim. On June 5, the resident of Chamarajpet had parked his Honda Activa in the company warehouse on 27th Main in Sector 2. When he returned a month later on July 5, the bike was missing.
On July 8 at 9am, Keshav parked his Honda Activa inside his house compound on Ellukunte main road in Sector 3. Three days later when he returned home at 6am, the the two wheeler was found stolen.
On July 9 at 12pm, Mukul Chakravarthy, a resident of Singasandra, parked his bike in front of his Bhive office. The same day at 10pm, the bike was gone.
On July 12 at 12pm, Avnish Gupta parked his Royal Enfield bike in front of his house on 7th Cross, 27th Main Road. When he returned on July 13 at 8am, it was missing from the spot.
Mohit Grover, a resident of 31st Main, Sector 1, lost his bike parked in front of his house on July 13. He discovered the theft at 5pm.
Between May 12, 2019 and May 27, 2019, HSR Club was witness to a scam running into Rs 12 lakh regarding the illegal sale of liquor by a staffer. The cops have filed a case of criminal breach of trust and cheating against him.
The case relates to CA site 12 where the HSR Club is located in Sector 3 since 1996. According to Srinivasa Reddy, the secretary of HSR Club, when an auditing was done on the number of liquor bottles, it was found that alcohol was missing from the cans.
The fingers are pointing to Sudhakar, a resident of Chikkamagaluru, who is allegedly absconding since May 25, 2019. HSR Club has four liquor counters, including one at the terrace garden restaurant where Sudhakar is a cashier since 2004.
After HSR Club’s new committee took over on May 12, 2019, an auditing was conducted where this anomaly was detected. There were several liquor cartons but the bottles were missing worth Rs 11.98 lakh.
Sector 6 based TGS Construction is in the eye of a storm. Several investors have complained to the HSR police against the firm. Most charges are to do with taking advances and not allotting the promised sites to them. The cops have charged the company directors for criminal conspiracy (120B), criminal breach of trust (406) and cheating (420).
Take the case of Geetha H, a housewife and a resident of KR Puram. She has accused six real estate dealers working for TGS. Her case also dates back to July 2015 like so many others when she paid an advance of Rs 12.5 lakh to TGS for a 3-BHK plot in Hongasandra village.
However, when Geetha realised that the builders had no permission to build the layout, she demanded back her money or the promised plot in her name. When none were forthcoming, she filed a police complaint like many others with similar complaints. The accused persons include Mandeep Kaur, Sachin Naik, Aklu Suresh, Budam Sudhakar and Kodihalli Anjesh Dilip.
It is a lazy Sunday. One day of late mornings, crazy brunches and bored nothings. For those of you that toil throughout the droning week, this is the one day you get to take care of yourself. Most of the time, you are left with a musty home for the weekend. Thus a major part of your special Sunday is devoted to making your home look spick and span for the coming week.
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Another curious ‘missing person’ case was reported in the neighbourhood recently. According to software engineer Shwetha M (name changed on request), the 39-year-old wife of Shashank K (name changed on request), he left their Sector 5 home on June 16, 2019 for business.
Once he reached Coimbatore, he called her from there on June 18, 2019 to tell her that he’s coming back to HSR Layout on June 19, 2019. However, subsequent calls made to him by her did not yield any results as the phone was switched off.
Sensing danger, the wife has filed a ‘missing person’ complaint with HSR police on June 24, 2019. However, it has now transpired that he left home as he was depressed due to his financial condition. He owed money to many people and did not know how to repay them. It is also said that many people cheated him out of his money. So he’s purposely hiding from everyone, according to family sources.
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Parents and guardians, be warned. Kids need to be handled with extreme care. Anything too stern and you could lose your sleep over them, and perhaps even lose them forever. This is precisely what has happened with 46-year-old Sundar, a resident of Sector 2.
Sundar, the father of Dhanush Deepak, a 14-year-old male, is searching for him ever since he went missing on the night of June 2, 2019. The kid is conversant in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and English and is 4.5 feet tall. He was last seen in a sky blue shirt and cream colour pant.
Right now, Dhanush’s family members are looking for him in Anekal. They are also planning to visit Haveri as they have some relatives over there. Says Sundar: “We are not able to eat ever since he left. His mother is a nervous wreck. Even earlier, he had got upset when we asked him to eat home food, but he had come back the next day. But now, he hasn’t come back yet.”
What went wrong on the fateful night? “We just told him to stop behaving in a manner that will bring disgrace to the family. He took it to heart and left home.”
If you spot this child, you can call Sundar at 96633-44478 or 99011-11237.
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A real estate dealer has accused another merchant of fraud in Sector 2. According to the police complaint filed on June 26, 2019, T Narasimhulu (58 years) of M/s Kumari Infrahomes had inked a Joint Development Agreement with five accused belonging to Dhatri Developers over a parcel of land in Anekal taluq.
All was well between September 5, 2017 and May 2019. The deal was towards the construction of a gated enclave on eight survey numbers. However, the Narasimhulu has alleged that the five accused sold off the sites belonging to him and cheated him out of his money.
The accused named are Harikrishna Reddy (45), Ram Rakesh (35), Mahendra Reddy (37), Amarendra Raju (35), all residents of Sector 1, and Chitluri Venkateshwaralu. When Narasimhulu confronted the accused, they allegedly mouthed expletives and threatened him of dire consequences. The cops have filed multiple charges of cheating, intimidation, and fraud.
A curious case has risen to the surface in Sector 2. A firm was allegedly defrauded of Rs 32 lakh by the company director in collusion with bank officials.
According to the complaint lodged with HSR Layout police station on June 17, 2019, the alleged crime took place between June 13 and June 17, 2019 at V2 Care Facilities and Outsource Pvt Ltd based out of 19th Main, 25th Cross.
According to the victim JP Veeresh, Vijay Kumar JM and he were directors of V2 that provided services in housekeeping, securities, facilities management and contract management. The firm had accounts with three banks. To facilitate easier payments to their employees, Vijay Kumar was given net banking facility for the Indian Bank and ICICI Bank accounts.
On June 12, 2019, Vijay Kumar allegedly demanded Rs 50 lakh in Veeresh’s chamber. When Veeresh said that the firm did not have so much money, Vijay allegedly mouthed expletives and threatened to spoil the name of the company.
Suspecting foul play, Veeresh immediately sent a letter on June 12, 2019 to Indian Bank and ICICI to suspend net banking facilities. While Indian Bank officials obliged, the ICICI bank did not and instead transferred Rs 32 lakh into Vijay Kumar’s account. This was despite Veeresh meeting ICICI bank branch manager (BTM Layout) Manish Singh and Deputy Manager Shishir Adhyapak, who are the co-accused in the police complaint for facilitating the alleged fraud.
A big-time jeweller in HSR Layout was conned by a vendor the other day. He took gold but never made any jewellery from it and neither did he return the gold. Although, the incident happened in February this year, the complaint was lodged only on June 22, 2019.
According to Rajesh KV, the proprietor of Rajesh Jewellery Mart on 5th Main in Sector 6, HSR Layout, 45-year-old Dhananjay, a resident of Nandini Layout, took 180.38 gram gold from Rajesh Jewellers on February 25, 2019. He was allegedly tasked to fashion jewellery out of it. The deadline came and went but neither did Dhananjay produce the jewellery nor the gold that was given to him. Rajesh, a resident of Krishnagiri, filed a case of cheating with the HSR Layout police. The jewellery is valued close to Rs 5.75 lakh.
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