Residents protest police inaction after local BJP leader's murder

The murder of a local BJP leader in Sangod in Kota district led to a violent clash between residents and the police on Tuesday. The police had to resort to baton-charge after the use of tear-gas failed to disperse the angry protestors led by some local BJP leaders.

Laxminaryan Nagar, general secretary of the Sangod rural BJP Mandal, was returning home when he was shot dead by some unidentified persons on Monday afternoon. Nagar's body lay in the fields on Sangod's outskirts till the evening when some passerby sighted it and informed the local police.

Bangkok  - Thai police on Wednesday identified a foreigner whose head was found at the weekend hanging by a rope off a Bangkok bridge as an Italian tourist who committed suicide after being evicted from his guesthouse for not paying the rent.

General Jongrak Chuthanont, deputy police commissioner, identified the decapitated man as Maurizio Tosadori, 54, an architect from Verona, Italy.

Mico Layout police ask neither for vehicles nor guns; they just need more personnel

The crime rate in Mico Layout, a mostly up-market area in south-east Bangalore, has been in a state of constant fluctuation over the last five years. But the graph has only been on an upward climb in recent times. There has been a 50% rise in crime at Mico Layout in the last one year.

Meanwhile, the police are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain law and order in the area. The reason for this could be attributed to the shortage of personnel at the Mico Layout police station. According to sources, the police force there is short of 17 constables, who are desperately required for guarding the crime-prone area.

looted valuables and cash estimated around Rs1,05,000

Burglars struck at four different places – three houses and one shop – across the city between Saturday evening and Monday morning, and decamped with valuables and cash. 

In the first incident, the offenders looted the house of a shop owner in Pillan Garden near KG Halli on Monday.

According to police, the complainant, Aslam Pasha, left home around 3:30pm. When he returned at 7pm, he found the front door lock broken and valuables and cash worth Rs25,000 were missing. The offenders were suspected to have entered the house between 5:15pm and 6:15pm. 

The first fast track sessions court judge justice Savithri Vinayaka adjourned the Chitralekha Urs murder case to Wednesday, as three important witnesses failed to appear before the court.

Chitralekha Urs (37), an advocate, was allegedly murdered by her cousin Bharati Urs, daughter of former chief minister Devaraj Urs and two associates in January 2004. 

The court, on Tuesday, was supposed to hear witnesses Nanjundegowda (the Central Crime Branch inspector who had arrested Bharati Urs and her associates), assistant commissioner of police (Cubbon Park) K Jitendranath (police inspector, High Grounds) and MLC Abdul Azeem (then the Investigating Officer), was posted.