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Karnataka-Bangalore
WHENEVER THERE is an inordinate delay in cracking a crime case, it is a habit with the police to say that they would have achieved a breakthrough if they there was a "bit of luck" on their side. With many murders and robberies remaining unsolved, the hapless investigators are waiting for luck to smile on them. A look at some of the sensational cases solved by the city police in the past few years shows that the police were able to do that mainly due to that "bit of luck." In most of the cases, the police were lucky to achieve a breakthrough as the criminals had bungled. In 1998, the city police unravelled a plan by the Mumbai underworld elements, allegedly having links with the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), to kill a leading politician and a businessman of the city. Though the underworld elements, led by the Mumbai gangster, Rasheed Malbari, were staying at K.G. Halli here for some months, the police had no information about them. One night, the gangsters picked a quarrel with a person who had come to make a telephone call from a public call office (PCO) near Arabic College at K.G. Halli, and opened fire with a pistol. Hearing the gunshot, the police rushed to the spot and arrested one of the gangsters, who had been injured after being accidentally hit by a bullet. It was the firing by the gangsters which eventually led the police to them. In the serial church blasts case too, the police were able to lay their hands on members of Deendar Anjuman after a bomb exploded in a van near Minerva Mills and not because of any intelligence gathering about the accused who had been camping here for long. It was the incriminating material found at the scene of the blast and interrogation of Syed Ibrahim, a Deendar Anjuman activist who was injured in the blast, that provided vital clues for the police in unearthing the ISI-backed Deendar Anjuman's conspiracy to create communal trouble and attack important installations in the country. After Subbaraju, a realtor, was shot dead by two persons at his office on Seshadripuram Main Road in January 2001, the police were lucky to achieve a breakthrough as the sharpshooters from Mumbai had accidentally dropped a mobile phone while making good their escape in an autorickshaw. Details of the calls made from the mobile phone helped the police in tracing the accused who had bumped off Subbaraju on the instructions of an underworld don in connection with a property dispute. Investigations into the Dinesh Bansali murder case of January 2001 had reached a dead end and the police had almost given up hopes to arresting the accused. But luck smiled on the investigators in mid-2002 when the then Commissioner of Police, H.T. Sangliana, received an anonymous letter that provided clues about the accused who was later arrested in Chennai. The police were able to zero in on the accused in the sensational Hotel Ashoka murder case as their pictures had been taken by a close circuit camera installed at a hotel in Chennai where they had duped a businessman of lakhs of rupees. The police, who luckily got these photographs, launched a manhunt for them and finally apprehended the accused, Aparajith Basak and his associates, who had also planned to kidnap a city-based liquor baron.
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