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Saturday, Jul 23, 2005

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Crackdown on anti-social elements

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The city police have launched a crackdown on anti-social elements against whom there are cases in police stations.

The Commissioner of Police, Ajai Kumar Singh, told presspersons on Friday that so far the police had enquired into the activities of 96 people against whom there were cases.

The police conducted checks at houses and hideouts of such people. Some of them were summoned to the police stations and questioned. The police have arrested seven such people under the Section 110 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cr. PC), he said.

During the checks, the police arrested a "proclaimed offender," Sridhar of Kamakshipalya. He had jumped bail and there were warrants against him, Dr. Singh said. He said the police would continue the operation against anti-social elements.

Dr. Singh said a joint team of the police and Excise officials raided several liquor shops in the city in the past few days and booked cases against 100 of them for selling "loose liquor."

He said that during a police-public meeting on June 25, the public had complained that several liquor shops were selling "loose liquor" in violation of Excise rules.

To a query, he said the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), Ramasubba, had been asked to conduct an inquiry into how the police had allowed Dharshanika Foundation, an alleged money-doubling firm, to function despite a criminal case booked against it in the Shankarapuram police station.

Meanwhile, the police said that so far 4,070 people, who were allegedly cheated by Viniv Inc., had lodged complaints at the special counter set up at the Central police station. In all, the complainants had invested Rs. 56.76 crores in Viniv Inc., the police said.

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