Youth makes nuisance calls to police control room, arrested

The Cubbon Park police on Thursday arrested a youth for making nuisance calls to the police control room.

Solomon, 20, a jobless man from Madanayakanahalli on Tumakuru Road, would make random calls to the control room and make obscene comments, especially when women attended the phone, police said.

A woman staffer from the control room had complained of receiving such nuisance calls from the past two days. Solomon was arrested after the police tracked him down using his mobile number.

“Despite issuing several warnings, some miscreants misuse the control room numbers and make such nuisance calls for fun. The control room is for the public to use during an emergency. Those making such calls will be punished as per law,” said a senior officer.

History-sheeter detained

Police on Wednesday detained a notorious history-sheeter under the Goonda Act. Bhaskar, 21, from Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, was a history-sheeter at the Basaveshwaranagar police station.

He was sent to jail several times but used to come out on bail and indulge in criminal activities. He has two attempt-to-murder cases registered against him at the Basaveshwaranagar police station and several attempt-to-dacoity and robbery cases at various police stations.

Auto driver stabbed

An auto-rickshaw driver was stabbed by three men near Pottery Town early on Thursday.

Suhail, from Pillanna Garden, was sitting in his auto-rickshaw near Pottery Town around 1 am when three men approached him and picked a quarrel. 

One of them stabbed him and the trio fled. He collapsed and bled heavily. He is being treated at a hospital and is said to be out of danger. Police suspect the attackers were known to him.