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Corrupt officials of Karnataka who are in the Lokayukta net, have now decided to settle the issue with the watchdog himself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two days after the death of a youth, V Bhaskar, 27, in a police station, sleuths of the Corps of Detectives (CoD) have started their investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Police are investigating the possible involvement of a pan-India child-trafficking racket, after they rescued five boys from the Majestic bus stand. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has taken up an inquiry against the Hanumanthnagar police station staff following the suicide of Bhaskar. It will now inspect all city police stations for torture equipment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Family members of V Bhaskar, 27, who was found dead in a room in Hanumanthnagar police station on Thursday, believe that he was picked up two days ago and tortured to death. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Various legal experts have varying opinions on the Bobbit-like case that comes up for hearing in a fast track court on Friday. The court will hear the bail application of Dr Sayeda Amina, 30, who severed 33-year-old Dr Mir Arshad Ali's penis at her clinic (Meshwak) in Koramanagala 8th block on November 29. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The bail application of Dr Sayeda Amina (30), who severed Dr Mir Arshad Ali's (33) penis and was arrested a few days later, will be heard on Friday by the fast track court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Poverty coupled with vengeance against his employer made this security guard breach the trust placed on him. Vikas Borah, 28, fled to his native state, Assam, after robbing diamond-studded jewelry worth Rs10 lakh from the shop he was guarding at Brigade Road in the Central Business District. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two police teams were searching for a car driver suspected to have stolen Rs21 lakh cash and electronic goods from his employer and owner of a city-based agro foods company. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The murder [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The 100-odd investors from Bangalore who have been allegedly cheated by the Pune-based Transcity Travel Company Pvt Ltd are now in a soup, despite the city police registering a cheating case. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The authorities are still clueless about the 27 Bangladeshi nationals who went missing from the city last year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Divorce is the legal way of ending a marital relationship. Another way - illegal and paperless - is fast catching the city's fancy, and it involves hiring criminals to kill the spouse. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Are you going to have tighter security arrangements this New Year's Eve? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bangalore city police have almost given up hunting for the 'super duo', who gained notoriety after cheating elderly people of their gold jewelry at 25 places across the city in the last two years. Though the police have cracked over 500 cases of tricksters hoodwinking the public and fleeing with their jewelry in 2007-08, it seems like these two are proving to be a little too clever for them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

French kiss [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Forty-five-old engineer, Ramesh Kumar invested Rs5 lakh in Pune-based TransCity Travel Company Private Limited hoping he would get thrice the amount in three years to secure a good future. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Panic gripped the city when rumours of a child dying after being administered polio drops began making the rounds. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The next time you feel like heckling a traffic police constable standing in the midst of nerve-wrecking traffic, ask yourself: do they really deserve it? Many of them are dying of either work-related ailments or road accidents, and they are not receiving much sympathy from the people they serve. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bangalore nights [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Agitated students demolished a temple being constructed on the grounds of a government school and college in Domlur on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At a time when security has become the prime concern of the central government, Karnataka's Director General and Inspector General of Police, R Sreekumar, says he faces a problem of high attrition among his cadre. Manpower is low: only hundred policemen per lakh people in the state. The poor manpower situation is exacerbated by the high rate of attrition among trained policemen in the lower cadre. Though Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) commandos now provide security at various sensitive locations in the state, and training programmes have commenced for additional policemen by commandos, Sreekumar still faces a dearth of personnel.   [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The family members of Mico Bosch employee Jameel are far from relieved, even after he was let off by police. Jameel (32), a quality auditor at Mico Bosch was picked up from his workplace on December 16, after his colleagues raised an alarm about his alleged jehadi leanings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prof Shivaramaiah (68), a retired Kannada lecturer, is now 'immune' to the sudden public attention he is getting. A fake identity card seized from Mumbai terror attack accused Ajmal Amir Kasab had mentioned the address of a site owned by Shivaramaiah. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT matters [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

FAIRER need [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Adugodi police on Tuesday detained an employee of Mico Bosch on Bannerghatta Road. He was allegedly distributing 'jehadi' handouts and harassing colleagues. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The sensational murder case of 54-year-old Annapoorneshwari in Basavanagudi in October last, has been partially solved with the arrest of the main accused Aditya (30). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Extra kick [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An ordinary chain-snatching incident assumed extraordinary hues when the culprits bit one of their victims to get to their object of desire. In fact, he even had to get a tetanus shot after the incident to prevent infection. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The city police are not equipped to tackle a terrorist attack, even one that is only half the magnitude of what the nation witnessed in Mumbai last month. In fact, a senior police officer in charge of the anti-terrorist cell threw up his hands in despair when DNA did a reality check on the preparedness of the police. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IISc link [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

She was more used to extracting dentals. On Saturday evening, she extracted something different from her former boyfriend, and went missing with his prized possession: the penis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It seems like the 'second' profession of the Hakki Pikki tribals in Karnataka is coming to light, and part of the credit for this goes to a dog that unwittingly went up in a blast after biting into a country-made bomb at Rajagopalanagar on Monday. Police said its master, Thimmaiah, used explosives to hunt wild boars. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Saturday's suspension of Bellary's Cowl Bazaar circle inspector of police Vidyadhar has sent shock waves among the IPS officers in the state. Speculations are that the suspension order will be revoked. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Negligent driving claimed four lives in an accident on the Bangalore-Mangalore national highway - 48 at Alappanagudde, Kunigal taluk, in the wee hours of Monday. Six other persons, including a scientist from Central Silk Board, were injured in the incident. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two persons accused of abetting the suicide of Nokia Private Ltd employee MJ Soni have filed a petition before the Karnataka high court, requesting it to quash criminal proceedings against them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A gang of eight dacoits robbed two passengers on the Chennai Express (Mumbai to Chennai/ No 1041) train at Vadi Junction in Gulbarga, a few kilometres from the Ganigapura railway station, early on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Karnataka State Human Rights Commission will take up a suo moto case against RT Nagar police for illegally detaining and assaulting seven men without filing any case against them. They are also accused of attempting to extort money from those detained. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bangalore Rural police nabbed a gang of eight dacoits from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, who were involved in a huge heist at a Confident Group project in Sarjapur recently. Police have seized cash, vehicles and other valuables from their possession. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The City Crime Branch (CCB), on Wednesday, arrested two alleged drug peddlers hailing from Rajasthan and seized 10 kg of opium valued at Rs80 lakh in the international market. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Hemalatha's children returned from school to their house at Balaji Layout in Kodigehalli on Tuesday, little did they expect to come face-to-face with their mother's corpse hanging from a ceiling fan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 28-year-old autorickshaw driver was hacked to death by a gang of eight on Tuesday after a three kilometer chase in Janata Colony in Gnanabharatinagar. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Subramanyapura police arrested a six-member dacoit gang which was plotting to rob the public in the wee hours of Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Not everybody who attends weddings is a well-wisher. Take, for instance, the case of 22-year-old Gulzaar alias Tanveer, who specialised in entering marriage halls in the guise of a guest and stealing gold jewelry from children. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A medical student at Nimhans, on Monday morning, returned from a trip to her native place only to discover that jewelry worth Rs 4 lakh had been stolen from her hostel room while she was away. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A post-mortem examination conducted on 26-year-old L Reena, a Karnataka Forest Service officer who was found dead in the bathroom of her Saramvinagar house in Ramamurthynagar on Sunday morning, revealed that she had died of "asphyxiation due to hanging." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage (BWSSB) workers and an autorickshaw driver drowned in a 25 ft deep drain near Milk Dairy Circle, in Yelahanka on Friday afternoon. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 26-year-old Karnataka Forest Service officer committed suicide on Sunday morning at her house in Saramvinagar, Ramamurthynagar. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Karnataka Excise Enforcement Wing officials busted an illicit liquor racket, arresting a notorious racketeer, who is known as one of the kings of distribution of spirit and illicit liquor in South India, especially Karnataka. Mazar Shariff (55), the accused, was arrested in the wee hours of Friday from a house in Kambipura on the Bangalore-Mysore Road. The sleuths seized 885 litre of natural spirit in 25 cans, valued at Rs1 lakh and a car valued at Rs1.25 lakh. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]