In almost filmi style, robbers looted 7 lakhs and Innova car from RC Nagar. The thieves entered the house by cutting the window and locked all the 5 family members in a room on the top floor.

They thieves took away 320 grams of gold, one lakh cash and also took away their Innova car as well.

Police sources said that the robbers came into the house at about 3am and took hostage Mr.Kurtadkar, his wife and 3 children, locked them on the top floor and then took away the booty.

The Innova car was later found in Hubli unattended. A case has been registered with the Udyambag Police Station.

The number of robberies happening in city has grown many folds in the past month.

5 people were arrested from Khanapur today who were betting on the world cup matches.

An Indica car, 3 lakh cash and 5 mobiles were confiscated from the site.

On February 28, 2011 another betting gang was unearthed by the Belgaum police from Gandhinagar area who were running their networks upto Mumbai, Hubli and Bangalore.

In overall 607 accidents in the district, 617 people were killed in the year 2010, said Sandeep Patil, Superintendent of Police, Belgaum.

A sum of Rs.98,78,475 was recovered as spot fines under 62723 cases filed under the motor vehicles act in the past year.

In 2010 a total of 916 cases of theft were reported to the tune of Rs.7,05,98,815 out of which valuables worth Rs.5,15,31,331 was recovered.

Police has also seized about 9200 pirated CD’s worth Rs.12,20,200.

Raju Hiroji(26) of Sambra was held by the police in Coimbatore and brought to Belgaum as he had robbed money from various ATM’s.

The accused Raju was working with Writer Safe guards, a company dealing with remittance of money from various banks. He used the secret codes and robbed the money from the ATMs. From the past 15 days the cops were on his lookout. Cash of Rs. 20 lakhs 600 was recovered from him.

He had robbed 2 lakhs from Corporation bank Nehru nagar ATM, 23 lakhs from SBI Gandhi Nagar ATM & 16 lakhs from Tilakwadi ATM.

He has been accused of robbing 43 lakhs and he had fled with his wife and year old kid recently.

The accused reportedly stole the money as he had to clear his debts, sources said.

Director-General of Police (CID) D.V. Guruprasad is here in Belgaum to review the investigation of online frauds perpetuated against gullible investors reported from Belgaum.

CID had registered cases under Prevention of Corruption Act with the State Lokayukta Police against two police officers for abetting and aiding the accused in different cases. One of them is Suresh Naidu, who until recently was serving as Deputy Superintendent of Police and Investigating Officer in a case against “Swiss Cash” company. The other officer is B.P. Chandrashekhar, who served as police inspector of Khade Bazaar Police Station until recently.

Mr. Naidu had helped the accused and benefited a site through third-party dealing, which he sold it and made money. As per investigation, the money made by police officials amounted to about Rs. 37 lakh.

In the six cases, the money collected by online companies amounted to about Rs. 11 crore invested by more than 8,000 people.

The modus operandi was that the accused companies refunded promised funds to early birds as a confidence building measure among investors while those who joined the schemes late were duped. Giving details, he said, “Reliance Services”, run by accused Anand Nayakwad and others, had mobilised Rs. 3 crore from 4,500 investors by promising Rs. 18,750 after a year for an investment of only Rs. 1,060.

Similarly,“Jeevan Dhan Marketing” which collected Rs. 3.92 crore from 26,161 investors but refunded only Rs. 92,000. The company had promised to return Rs. 75,000 on a deposit of Rs. 1,500.

Four cases have been registered against promoters of IQuiz Prashant Chudankar and others; two with Khade Bazaar Police and one each with the Market Police and the Shahpur Police.

This company had lured 1,415 investors by promising 25 per cent returns for a minimum investment of Rs. 1,250 and collected Rs. 4.48 crore. It also refunded Rs. 4.33 crore.

Source: Hindu

Tilakwadi police arrested a youth from New Delhi and seized Rs 21 lakh cash and 100-gram gold from him on Wednesday.

Sources said Jatin Sikandar Chabra was here to return money to the people in a bid to prevent them from filing complaints with the police.
A woman from a well-known family was also with Chabra at the time of the arrest. Originally, Chabra is from Delhi but has his business in Surat. He was unable to tell the police how and why he had bought so much cash along with him.

Police are interrogating the case and have access to his bank accounts to get a lead.

All must be aware of Cable wars in Metros and especially cities like Mumbai. Now this Cable war has hit your calm peaceful town of Belgaum.

In Belgaum, for over a decade there has been a single Multi system operator (MSO) running the show. Many smaller players merged their networks with the big fish.

There were attempts by others to start a MSO but did not succeed.

Now a new MSO Vardraj Cable network (owned by Rajesh Jadhav) is trying to enter the market and over the past couple of months, there have been various incidents of small incidents of cutting cable wire by both parties, use of abusive language against each other etc.

To peak it, Vardraj is planning to start its own news channel in Belgaum and its head Rajdil Jamadar was beaten up badly by unknown people yesterday near Anadwadi.

The miscreants asked him to get down from his bike and beat him with hockey sticks and rods; he was admitted to KLE hospital with critical wounds on his head.

Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode (29) director of a business process outsourcing (BPO) unit was arrested alleged involvement in stealing medical history data of a UK-based company and selling it to another company. The police also booked two suspects in this regard and one suspect is from Belgaum.

The other two suspects have been identified as Kunal Abhay Gargatti of Belgaum and Jayesh Bhagchandani. All the three have been booked under several sections of the Information Technology Act.

The investigations have revealed that Gargatti and Bhagchandani had requested Bansode to sell the data for the use of a charitable company.

Source: TOI

Nagendra Reddy alias Nagi Reddy alias Vishnu alias Indra Kumar is an accused in a murder case in Bangalore and is also wanted by Interpol for the murder of a techie in the UK.

On May 10 this year, he escaped from the jail ward of Belgaum district hospital, killing a guard in the process. Revealing his naxal connection, Belgaum SP Sonia Narang said, “Reddy has joined hands with the naxals and may have escaped to a Maoist-dominated area in Nepal. We have formed three teams, each headed by a sub-inspector, to nab him.”

Source: Bangalore Mirror

Vishwanath Angadi, District Sessions Judge announced the sentence of 12-year imprisonment and Rs 9-lakh penalty to accused Jagadish Kore, in the case of attempt-to-murder of Rajya Sabha member Prabhakar Kore. Jagadish Kore is the nephew of Prabhakar Kore.

Jagdish Kore being taken away after the sentence

Jagadish Kore, accused On October 19, 2006 had fired bullets on Prabhakar Kore at Mayur theatre in Ankali village of Chikkodi taluk. Three bullets had injured Prabhakar Kore. The doctors of KLE Hospital could remove only two of them. Another bullet is still stuck in his body, as its removal may pose risk to his life.

Huge crowds had gathered around the court area to hear the verdict. The sentenced is termed as highest punishment and fine for an attempt to murder case in the history of Belgaum court.