The issues are just too many to warrant a separate story. Therefore, we are collating all the recent complaints made against various civic agencies, so they can address these complaints immediately, if they still haven’t.
When the authorities don’t listen, the residents should never give up. Sector 2 resident Lalithamba BV did just that. When she heard that last week, one of the maids lost her purse to three ruffians who luckily spared her life, she called every authority imaginable to ensure that there was a streetlight on this dark stretch of the road where the robbery took place.
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The theft happened on a dark stretch of Somasundrapalya Main Road near Shyla wine shop. “The stretch near Shyla wines was completely dark as there was no street light,” recalls Lalithamba. “After our follow-up, BBMP fixed the street light today. Finally, there is light before Diwali!”
If you, dear resident has done something as commendable, Whatsapp us (98805-85748) your story with pictures or videos or both, and we will be glad to publish it on our channel. Importantly, let us know the other dark stretches in HSR Layout where streetlights are direly required. Use the ‘comments’ section or Whatsapp us with pictures. Just make sure it’s in HSR or HSR extension areas only. And if you like this story, please share and show that you care!
A 38-year-old Sadashivanagar resident has alleged that he was defrauded of Rs 8.64 lakh by a chit fund firm in HSR Layout, Sector 6.
The scam began in January this year when Mohammed Shahid Shariff came across Chandrashekar Gupta Gala, the MD of a company called SR Blue Chips. The accused allegedly promised to give Shahid 1-2% daily returns on any amount of money he deposited. Enticed by the offer, Shahid and his wife Amreen gave money via RTGS in instalments between January 17 and February 9, 2018 totalling Rs 8.64 lakh.
For the first ten days, the FIR says that the accused gave them returns and suddenly stopped. When asked over the phone, Chandrashekar and his two male partners said they would not only give Shahid all that he had invested but also a bonus of Rs 25 lakh in August 2018.
However, when not a rupee came their way after August, the couple realised that they were conned by the firm and filed an FIR at the HSR police station on October 30, 2018. A case has been registered against the three accused under the Prize Chits & Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978, Karnataka Protection of Interest Depositors Exorbitant Act 2004, and IPC 1860.
A 38-year-old Sadashivanagar resident has alleged that he was defrauded of Rs 8.64 lakh by a chit fund firm in HSR Layout, Sector 6.
The scam began in January this year when Mohammed Shahid Shariff came across Chandrashekar Gupta Gala, the MD of a company called SR Blue Chips. The accused allegedly promised to give Shahid 1-2% daily returns on any amount of money he deposited. Enticed by the offer, Shahid and his wife Amreen gave money via RTGS in instalments between January 17 and February 9, 2018 totalling Rs 8.64 lakh.
For the first ten days, the FIR says that the accused gave them returns and suddenly stopped. When asked over the phone, Chandrashekar and his two male partners said they would not only give Shahid all that he had invested but also a bonus of Rs 25 lakh in August 2018.
However, when not a rupee came their way after August, the couple realised that they were conned by the firm and filed an FIR at the HSR police station on October 30, 2018. A case has been registered against the three accused under the Prize Chits & Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978, Karnataka Protection of Interest Depositors Exorbitant Act 2004, and IPC 1860.
A house on 14th B Cross, 17th Main in Sector 4 was burgled between October 28, 5.45am and October 30, 9.30am. Nobody knows the exact time of robbery as the burglary came to light when the inhabitants were on a trip to Tirupati temple. The FIR was registered at the HSR police station on October 30 at 4pm.
Fifty-eight-year-old Panduranga Rao was residing with his family on the first and second floor of his house in Sector 4. At about 5.45am on October 28, the family left home after locking up their house to visit Tirupati. On October 30, they received a phone call from someone known to them that their house appeared to be broken into. By 9.30am, Panduranga’s younger brother Srinivas rushed to the HSR home to find that the front door was broken into and valuables worth over Rs 2.5 lakh were stolen. Some of the lost items were gold jewellery, comprising necklaces, chains, earrings and rings, and cash worth Rs 25,000.
A case under IPC 1860 is registered and the HSR cops are investigating.
The problems of the 6th Sector residents appear to be never-ending, like it is for many other sectors in HSR Layout. The latest story is about how the residents residing on one stretch of 11th Main are forced to put up with overflowing sewage on the roads for the last six months and counting.
“This is happening opposite House Number 96,” Gopal told Residents Watch. “The doctor who resides in it has contacted just about everybody, from corporator to MLA to the BWSSB engineers, but a permanent solution is yet to be found. Whenever we complain, they just do a patchwork, but within a few days, the overflow happens again. I have even tweeted to the BWSSB chairman but it has been of no use so far.”
When the residents complained initially, the BWSSB tried to clear the blockage with a small machine. “When that didn’t work, they said they would get a bigger machine, but that hasn’t happened yet,” says Jalan. “Ideally, they should lay a new sewerage pipeline along the entire length of 11th Main to permanently resolve this problem.”
The KLM mall that claims to be the ‘common man’s mall’ is indeed attracting the common man by the thousands. However, it did not expect the crowd to get so much that it cannot accommodate the teeming multitudes inside its premises. Therefore, the footpath on 27th Main Road has been encroached.
Since there is no parking arrangement in its basement like many other commercial establishments in HSR Layout, the vehicles are being parked all along 27th Main Road, 22nd Cross Road and around. The result is that the traffic flow is getting choked at the junction of 22nd Cross and 27th Main Road. Here is a video of what it looked like this evening.
Traffic cops have been deputed here to manage the evening rush. They were also instrumental in getting KLM to remove the encroached footpath on 22nd Cross. May the KLM mall be a lesson in how permissions should not be given by the BBMP to such establishments in HSR Layout without adequate parking arrangements.
We urge BBMP engineers, BBMP Joint Commissioner, MLA and corporator to ensure that such establishments don’t come up without taking adequate precautions to avoid inconveniencing the general public and the traffic flow.
On October 23, Residents Watch wrote about a community fridge placed by Saibaba temple on the 19th Main footpath, so the poor can make use of it. Today, Sector 7 resident Ratnakar BNS Ratnakar did his bit for the underprivileged.
He decided to donate the harvest from his terrace and community garden to the community fridge. “I placed cabbage, brinjal, and Amaranthus leaves harvested today,” he told Residents Watch. “Hope the same will be relished by the users. We should encourage more such community fridges across HSR. I feel elated.”
We are elated too. If more residents start caring about the underprivileged, the world will be such a better place.
Sector 4 residents stopped the installation of a mobile tower atop a ground plus two floor house by Airtel yesterday. It’s unusual for the telecom service provider to opt for such a low-lying house that could not only be harmful to the residents.
Airtel planned to erect a tower on top of this house in Sector 4
House No 228 is right in the heart of a residential area
According to the residents, the person responsible behind the installation attempt was the owner of house number 228. “Although Debnath is the house owner, the No Objection Certiticate (NOC) was signed by his friend living next door,” said resident Kavitha Reddy. “Residents around have stopped the work and the BBMP Joint Commissioner (Bommanahalli) confirmed that he was not even aware that such a permission was given.”
Now the residents have asked the Sector 4 Residents Welfare Association to up this issue with the BBMP and issue a warning to the owner of the house. “Just for the sake of money, people like Debnath and his neighbour are putting the entire locality in danger,” said Reddy. “Telecom towers are banned in residential areas and these people are violating the law and playing with the health of citizens.”
DO MOBILE TOWERS CAUSE CANCER?
According to the American Cancer Society, the radiofrequency waves emitted by mobile towers do not cause DNA damage that can lead to cancer. In London, you will be hard pressed to find a mobile tower, because they are all installed outside the city. What you will see instead of boosters inside the city. In a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by film actress Juhi Chawla in 2015, her lawyer cited this and asked India to follow suit. However, India’s telecom regulatory authority maintains that its standards are 10-times stricter than the globalstandards. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has made a public statement that the radiation from cell phones. mobile towers and Wi-Fi as “possibly carcinogenic”. In April 2017, the Supreme Court gave a landmark ruling in favour of a cancer patient who alleged that he got it because of a mobile tower next to his office. The country’s highest court ordered the deactivation of the tower.
CHECK THE MOBILE TOWER RADIATION NEAR YOUR HOUSE
A year ago, the ministry of communications set up a mobile tower radiation monitoring website. You can check out if your mobile tower is emitting harmful radiation that is above the standards specified by India. Just CLICK HERE and you are good to go.
This morning, former Home Minister and BTM Layout MLA Ramalinga Reddy laid the foundation stone for the construction of a skywalk between Teacher’s Colony-Sector 5 and HSR Layout Sector 6. The irony of it is that it was inaugurated earlier by Bommanahalli MLA Satish Reddy in July 2018. Read that story here.
When it was first inaugurated, the work on the overbridge near 9th Main Road and Sector 5 near the bus stand on the other side of Outer Ring Road (ORR) never got off to a start. The work was not allowed to begin because certain jurisdictional permissions were not given.
Some residents wondered how a skywalk could come up where a Metro was supposed to come up. The contractor responded by saying that the height alignment of 28 feet will not interfere with the Metro coming up at 45 feet. However, while he had the go-ahead from the Bommanahalli side of ORR, Sector 5 comes under the Jakkasandra ward handled by a different MLA.
Today, BTM Layout MLA Ramalinga Reddy inaugurated the skywalk yet again, this time on his side of the road, and the work should now proceed briskly. This skywalk will be built by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on a public-private partnership (PPP) model. To be built by Adonai Shelters, this will ease the road crossing blues of several elderly citizens and students. In addition, there will be electronic escalators to help the elderly and the disabled from using the skywalk.
This would be Adonai’s 22nd skywalk in Bangalore. If all goes well, the road over bridge should be ready by the end of this year.
The Mughals restaurant on 17th Cross in Sector 4 had done it for several years. After it shut down, The Egg Factory took its place.
However, the violation remains despite the Sector 4 residents pointing out the glaring irregularities. The pictures below convey the encroachment of the footpath better than anything else.
If you spot similar irregularities, whatsapp us (9880585748) and we will do stories on them too.
A thirty-six-year-old doctor fractured her leg when she was hit by another two wheeler on Outer Ring Road near Agara flyover.
At around 7am on October 24, Dr Amrutha Chauhan was near the exit ramp of Agara flyover on Outer Ring Road in front of Green Bar & Restaurant when another speeding two wheeler rider collided with her vehicle. She fell on the road along with the scooter, causing grievous injuries to her right leg.
One of the passersbys called for an ambulance and she was rushed to Columbia Asia hospital for treatment as an inpatient. A case of rash and negligent driving against Keshava, the rider of Honda Unicorn (No KA01-JA7581) is lodged by the HSR cops.
Dr Amrutha is a resident of Mantri Sarovar apartments in Sector 4. “I am still in the hospital,” Dr Amruta told Residents Watch. “Since it’s an open wound as there are multiple fractures and the bone had come out, the doctors are keeping me under observation before they can discharge me.” Recalling the incident, she said, “I was riding on the Agara flyover. I came on to the main Outer Ring Road and gave an indicator to move right and just when I was proceeding towards it, I was suddenly hit by a vehicle from behind.”
