Shanthalanagar ward Corporator Shivakumar was arrested on Thursday on the charge of threatening to kill a businessman. However, he was released later in the day as he obtained an anticipatory bail.
Adithya Raheja, director of GSTAAD Hotel Private Limited, had lodged a complaint on April 5 against Shivakumar that the corporator and his associates trespassed on his under-construction hotel on March 30 and April 4.
They allegedly abused him. They also took away some construction materials from the site, Raheja stated in the complaint.
Recently, when a team of police went to the corporator’s residence, he gave the cops the slip as he had information about the arrival of the team.
Held for conversion bid
Police on Thursday arrested a preacher at Mahadevapura for allegedly trying to convert minor children to Christianity. Victor Babu, an assistant pastor of Hebron Church, has been booked under Section 295 A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of the Indian Penal Code.
Babu had taken 23 children, including nine boys and 14 girls, for a summer camp three days ago. He took the children to the church and preached them Christianity, police said.
The children, a majority of them slum dwellers and studying in local schools, stayed at Kundalahalli village during the camp.
Babu had not taken the permission of the parents to train the children at the camp. Nor was he maintaining any document or register to show he was running the camp, police said.
The children learnt songs and offered prayers for three days. When their parents grew suspicious and asked them what they learnt at the camp, they said Babu taught them songs and Christian prayers.
Police arrested Babu based on a complaint lodged on Thursday by a parent, Rajasekhar Reddy, alleging that he was trying to covert children to Christianity. Babu has denied the charges.
SI survives accident
A sub-inspector had a narrow escape after he came under the front wheel of a private bus near Satellite bus stand on Mysore Road on Thursday afternoon.
Mallikarjun, SI, with Kengeri (law & order) police station, escaped with minor injuries on his left hand.
He was treated as an outpatient at a private hospital. The SI’s two-wheeler was damaged in the accident.
According to Kengeri police, the accident occurred around 3:30 pm when the bus hit Mallikarjun, who was standing by his two-wheeler.
He fell down and came under the front wheel. The bus partially ran over his vehicle. The accident led to a traffic jam for some time.
Pedestrian killed
A 45-year-old pedestrian was killed on the spot after a BMTC bus knocked him down in Byatarayanapura on Wednesday night.
The victim Gangaram, 45, a resident of Kengeri, was a construction worker.
According to the police, the accident occurred when Gangaraj was crossing the road near a Masjid in Kengeri.
Man held for murder
Parappana Agrahara police arrested a man on the charge of murdering a woman and recovered ornaments from him. The suspect was identified as Nagabhushan, a resident of Pindladevi village, Pavagad taluk in Tumkur district. According to the police, he was known to the victim Padma, 40, a resident of Parappana Agrahara.
She was into saree business. Nagabhushan met her at her house on April 4 and requested her to accompany him as there were guests at his house who wanted to buy sarees.
He took her to a remote area near Koodlu lake close to KSRP quarters, strangulated and killed her. Later, he took her valuables and fled, said the police.
The victim’s son and husband lodged a complaint after she failed to return the next day. The police launched a search operation and arrested him at Pindladevi village.
He had pledged the stolen ornaments he had stolen.