Techie swears at cop, lands in jail

A 28-year-old software engineer landed in jail for hurling an expletive at a policeman in Southeast Bengaluru's  Parappana Agrahara.

Sushil Kumar Jha, a senior IT support engineer at Infosys, was booked for obstructing a public servant from discharging his duties  under IPC Section 353  and was remanded in judicial custody until late last week.

He, however, managed to get bail and has since  vacated his paying guest accommodation. Krishna Murthy (35), a head constable attached to the Parappana Agrahara police station, was patrolling the streets on a Hoysala car on February  28.

The police control room suddenly flashed an alert, asking him to handle a crowd that had gathered in front of Balaji PG near Rajeshwari Temple, Narayana Reddy Layout.

When Murthy reached the  spot around  10.15 pm, there was a  crowd of 50.  Thirumala Reddy, the owner of the paying guest accommodation, was having a heated argument with  Jha, one of his tenants, over vacating the digs.  

Jha, a native of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand,  was adamant on staying for  another day and said he would vacate the room only on March 1, but the owner would not listen. Jha then stormed into his room located on the fourth floor and refused to leave.

Murthy intervened and asked Jha to vacate the room. Jha  reportedly used an expletive to abuse him. The policeman informed his bosses and  hauled Jha to the station.