KPL betting case: BCCI, ICC reach out to Bengaluru police, ensure cooperation

Crime

Run by the KSCA, KPL, an intra-state T20 tournament, has been mired in betting and spot-fixing controversies.

IANS

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has reached out to Bengaluru Police, promising co-operation in probing the multi-faceted Karnataka Premier League (KPL) betting scam, an official said on Saturday. "The ICC has contacted Bengaluru Police regarding the KPL betting scam. We are in co-operation with each other," Crime Branch Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kuldeep Jain, confirmed with IANS. In 2000, ICC had established the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), which works with multiple stakeholders, including member boards, players, support staff, law enforcement agencies and betting regulators to thwart corruption in the game. Alex Marshall is the General Manager of ACU, while Ronnie Flanagan is its Chairman. Similarly, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has also contacted the city police in connection with the scandal-hit local T20 tournament it had approved. "BCCI has extended all co-operation... They are also collecting information from us and we are on the same lines against the KPL betting scam," said Jain. Jain said that BCCI officials have met the police in Bengaluru in an informal meeting. BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit also wrote to the city police promising co-operation, Jain said. According to Kuldeep Jain, some retired cricketers came forward to help the police in nipping the betting evil in the bud. Meanwhile, Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) Treasurer Vinaya Mruthyunjaya said the state cricket body had no information of the ICC contacting the police. "We have no information of ICC having contacted the police," Mruthyunjaya told IANS. He did not clarify if officials from KSCA, a body affiliated to the BCCI, had accompanied the BCCI officials while meeting the police in the city, and the level of cooperation and coordination among the ICC, BCCI and KSCA pertaining to the KPL betting scam. It is also not known how much data in GB volume has been submitted to the police, who sought complete details of KPL teams, scorecards, video footages, phone numbers and other details linked to the tournament. There is also no clarity if ICC or BCCI had given any specific instructions to the state association in connection with the KPL. The senior police officer said the investigation into the KPL betting scam was continuing, without confirming if any of the female escorts or cheer girls deployed for "honeytrapping" cricketers were identified or arrested. Run by the KSCA, KPL, an intra-state T20 tournament, has been mired in betting, honeytrapping and spot-fixing controversies. The betting scandal led to the arrest of a string of cricketers, bookies, team owners and others. Started in 2008 and envisioned to be a feeder tournament to the cashrich BCCI-owned Indian Premier League (IPL), KPL has emerged as a leading local franchise-based league.        

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In a suspected case of female infanticide, 8-day-old baby found dead in Bengaluru

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The Soladevanahalli police have taken into custody, the baby’s grandmother, Parameshwari.

Theja Ram

A harrowing case of murder has come to light in Bengaluru where a new born, just eight-days-old, was allegedly killed by her grandmother. Eight days ago, Tamilselvi, a resident of Myadarahalli, gave birth to a baby girl at a private hospital in Bengaluru. According to the Soladevanahalli police, her mother-in-law, Parameshwari, was not happy that it was a baby girl. As the baby was born prematurely, she had contracted jaundice soon after birth and was undergoing treatment.  After the mother and baby were discharged and came home, Parameshwari allegedly taunted Tamilselvi for not giving birth to a boy. Speaking to TNM, Soladevanahalli Police Inspector Shivaswamy said that this harassment allegedly continued. “Around 11 am on Saturday, we received a call from Tamilselvi, who complained that her new born had gone missing from her house,” he said.   “The mother was in the washroom. When she came out, the baby was not in the cradle. She called her husband, Marshal, who, in turn, called 100. We went to their house immediately to find out how the baby went missing in a span of five minutes,” Inspector Shivaswamy added. Shivaswamy and a head constable attached to Soladevanahalli police station questioned all three family members. They then began conducting a search in the area. When Shivaswamy went up to the building’s rooftop and looked down, he found the baby on the ground, bleeding from its head. An ambulance was pressed into service and the baby was taken to a nearby private hospital, where it was declared brought dead. Inspector Shivaswamy said that the new born was allegedly thrown from the rooftop of the house, and hence, a murder case has been registered.  “Tamilselvi and Parameshwari were the only ones in the house. Tamilselvi was in the washroom, according to her statement. She and Marshal have said that Parameshwari was not happy about the baby being a girl. When she got jaundice, Parameshwari is said to have taunted Tamilselvi about the expenses they had to bear,” he added.  The Soladevanahalli police have registered a case of murder and have taken Parameshwari into custody, where she is currently being questioned. Shivaswamy said that a formal arrest will be made after questioning. Originally from Tiruchi in Tamil Nadu, Marshal, along with his mother Parameshwari, moved to Bengaluru several years ago. Marshal and Tamilselvi got married three years ago.       

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Mysuru Bishop booked for kidnapping, criminal intimidation, sexual harassment

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Bishop KA William of the Catholic Diocese of Mysuru is, however, yet to be arrested.

Alithea Stephanie Mounika

Nearly a month after a Catholic Bishop was accused of intimidating a survivor of sexual harassment, the Mysuru police on Friday registered an FIR against him. KA William, the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Mysuru has been booked for kidnapping (Section 506), criminal intimidation (Section 563) and outraging the modesty of a woman(354). He is, however, yet to be arrested by the police. It was on November 5 that a complaint was filed against the Bishop by Robert Rosario, Association of Concerned Catholics (AOCC), a citizen’s group. This came after a video of a woman surfaced in March this year alleging that the Bishop threatened her, after she accused another priest of sexual harassment. In the video, the woman, who formerly worked in the diocese, alleged that she was harassed by a priest, Leslie Moras, and later was allegedly threatened by the Bishop last year. “I was called to the office after my field work at around 6 pm on the pretext of giving a report of what I had been doing. At that time, he [Leslie Moras] was grazing himself against me lustfully. Later, he directly approached me for sex, and said, ‘only if you compromise with me, you will have a job.’ I decided to quit my job thereafter, in May 2018,” she alleged.     She further alleged, “Some men came to my new workplace in July 2018 and made me accompany them after I got a threat call from the Bishop. The men took me to a car and wiped all the data on my phone. Then they offered to give me money.” While the victim did not file a police complaint, AOCC chose to take up the matter. However, no FIR has been registered against Leslie Moras. On November 12, the police met with the victim. She has given a written undertaking to them, stating that she stands by the video which she made which accused the Bishop of various offences. However, she is yet to give a formal statement to the police. The police said that they will begin questioning the Bishop when the victim makes a statement sworn before a magistrate. While allegations of the police shielding the Bishop have surfaced, officials said the delay in registering an FIR was because they were giving the victim adequate time to make a statement, and did not want to pressure her. Speaking to TNM, Robert Rosario, the complainant, alleged, "They don't want to take a case against a powerful person. I had to put pressure on the police by writing to the Commissioner several times before they took the complaint." Incidentally, Robert has a case registered against him for spreading communal hatred during the 2018 Assembly Elections.   Dismissing the allegations, Leslie Moras said on Friday, “Who has made the complaint? The complaint should be made by the victim herself, or it is not valid.” Bishop William was contacted several times for a statement, but he did not respond. In a press meet earlier this month, the Bishop had denied the allegations levelled against him and Leslie. The FIR against Bishop William also comes after 37 priests from different parishes wrote a letter to the Vatican seeking his removal. They accused him of land-grabbing, corruption, and fathering a child, which is taboo for a Catholic priest. The priests also alleged that Bishop William “has strong connections with the politicians of criminal record, corrupt police officials and corrupt bureaucrats. It is highly worrisome that he has also connections with the underworld." Read: 37 Catholic priests and a woman accuse Mysuru Bishop of sexual misconduct, corruption  

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In Bengaluru's KR Puram, friends-turned-foes fight each other to win the bye-polls

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The fight for the seat is personal for former Chief Minister Siddarmaiah as Byrathi Basavaraj the BJP candidate was once his close associate.

Theja Ram

It’s a fight between old friends-turned-enemies, mentor versus mentee in Bengaluru’s KR Puram Assembly constituency. Congress MLC A Narayanaswamy is up against his former mentor, one of the 17 rebel legislators – Byrathi Basavaraj. The fight in KR Puram is a personal one not just for Narayanaswamy, but for former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah too. Once considered as one of Siddaramaiah’s close confidantes, Byrathi Basavaraj’s resignation as an MLA and subsequent defection to BJP has been a bitter pill for Siddaramaiah to swallow. Defeating Basavaraj, Congress leaders say, is on the former Chief Minister’s personal agenda. Basavaraj, a Kuruba leader, MTB Nagaraj former Hoskote MLA and Yeshwantpur MLA ST Somashekar – were three former associates of Siddaramaiah, who defected to the BJP. The trio, who once shouted praises for Siddaramaiah and offered their ‘eternal gratitude’ to Siddaramaiah in political rallies, were known as “Siddaramaiah’s personal cabinet”. After the defection, the Congress decided to field Vokkaliga leader A Narayanaswamy, Byrathis’ former mentee, as the party candidate. Although not a rookie to electoral politics, Narayanaswamy’s clout in KR Puram is significantly less compared to Byrathi. Moreover, Basavaraj has the suooier of four out of six Congress corporators from the KR Puram segment. Congress insiders say that corporators BN Jayaprakash (Basavanapura), MN Srikanth (Devasandra), V Suresh (Narayanapura)and SG Nagaraj (Vignananagar) are offering their support for Basavaraj behind the scenes. This has resulted in a tough fight for A Narayanaswamy and the Congress has brought out the big guns to help him win the elections. Former Water Resource Minister DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah are actively campaigning for Narayanaswamy and hoping that the caste equation in KR Puram will help them win the bye-polls. KR Puram has around 71,000 Vokkaligas, 47,000 from the Muslim community, 38,000 Christians and around 62,000 from the Kuruba community. While Basavaraj’s followers say that he is sure to bag most of the Kuruba votes, BJP insiders say that Siddaramaiah’s involvement in the campaign may create a dent in Basavaraj’s voter base. “The BJP does not have Vokkaliga votes. That will be split between Congress and the JD(S) candidate C Krishnamurthy. KR Puram has been the turf of the Congress because the Kuruba, Vokkaliga and minority voters shy away from electing a BJP leader. Siddaramaiah had fought with senior Congress leader A Krishnappa and given Byrathi a ticket to contest elections for the first time in 2013. Siddaramaiah had campaigned for Byrathi and ensured his victory. Byrathi Basavaraj may be a Kuruba leader but he is not in Siddaramaah’s league,” a senior Congress leader said.  

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Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala's health stable, discharged after heart surgery

Health

The governor was admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru on Monday for a bypass surgery.

TNM Staff

After making a stable recovery following a bypass surgery, Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala was discharged from Fortis Hospital in Bengaluru on Saturday. “Bangalore, November 30, 2019: His Excellency, Shri Vajubhai Vala was admitted at Fortis hospital, Bannerghatta road for a bypass surgery on November 24, 2019. He underwent a successful surgery under Dr Vivek Jawali, Chairman, Department of Cardio Vascular Sciences, Fortis Hospital, Bangalore on November 25 and was monitored for 5 days. He is recovering well and is walking around. After thorough consultation from his treating doctor and the team, he was discharged today morning,” reads the press statement issued by Fortis Hospital. Vajubhai Vala had visited the hospital in the first week of November for an angiogram when doctors at the hospital recommended that he undergo a coronary bypass surgery. He was subsequently admitted to the hospital on Monday for surgery following which he was monitored closely. An angiogram is a diagnostic procedure wherein dye is inserted into the arteries of an individual through the bloodstream. This dye, a contrasting agent, then is visible when an x-ray is conducted, thereby allowing doctors to assess the condition of the arteries. A coronary bypass surgery is a surgery done to divert the flow of blood away from a blocked or partially blocked artery and towards the heart. On Wednesday, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa visited Vajubhai Vala at the hospital, “I met the respected governor Vajubhai Vala who was hospitalised due to illness and enquired about his health. I pray to god that he recovers quickly,” he later tweeted. ಅನಾರೋಗ್ಯದ ಕಾರಣ ಖಾಸಗಿ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗೆ ದಾಖಲಾಗಿರುವ ಮಾನ್ಯ ರಾಜ್ಯಪಾಲರಾದ ಶ್ರೀ ವಜುಭಾಯಿ ವಾಲಾರವರನ್ನು ಭೇಟಿ ಮಾಡಿ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ವಿಚಾರಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಅವರು ಶೀಘ್ರ ಗುಣಮುಖರಾಗಲೆಂದು ದೇವರಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥಿಸುವೆನು. pic.twitter.com/ZmH0Y3PKCc — B.S. Yediyurappa (@BSYBJP) November 27, 2019 As he was in recovery at the time, the Governor could not attend the Conference of Governors held in New Delhi on November 23 and 24. He was also unable to take part in the Jalaram Jayanti celebrations by the Gujarati Association in Bengaluru, which he attends each year.

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A Bengaluru doctor wants to transform diabetes treatment as we know it with his tech

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Bengaluru-based endocrinologist Dr Abhijit Bhograj uses an IoT sensor and app to make diabetes treatment more effective.

BS Manu Rao

Treatment with a deeper understanding of elevated blood sugar levels is set to make a huge difference to diabetics with breakthrough technology. Bengaluru-based endocrinologist Dr Abhijit Bhograj uses this technology, comprising a cloud-connected sensor and app that generates data on a patient’s condition and response to triggers, and enables more accurate treatment. India is a ticking time bomb with nearly half of the world’s diabetics. A shocking 72 million Indians are diabetic and the number is expected to touch 100 million by 2030. At epidemic proportions, and with just around 600 endocrinologists in the country, diabetes will be a major stumbling block disrupting lives and hampering productivity, if left unchecked.  “The fact that we did not have enough understanding of our patients bothered me. Often, we treated patients based on one blood test. This is just not enough data to base a treatment plan on. There are many factors that lead to high blood sugar levels. Sleep, food, stress, lifestyle, obesity, hereditary and medications are some of them. Ideally, a doctor needs a deep understanding on how a person has fared on these parameters in terms of their impact on the blood sugar levels over a period of time. It is impractical to conduct multiple tests every day for a fortnight to arrive at this conclusion. So often, doctors treat diabetics with insufficient data, merely on guesswork. The treatment therefore does not result in optimum benefit to the patients,” says Dr Abhijit Bhograj. This led him to embark on a quest to harness digital technology to research and gather data that will help in efficient treatment of the disease. Dr Abhijit uses a sensor with a filament that is impaled on a patient’s arm. The sensor’s subcutaneous filament takes a reading of the patient’s blood sugar level every 15 minutes over two weeks. During this time, the app, to be downloaded on the patient’s phone, analyses data generated by the sensor. This internet-based system that connects the sensor and the app yields valuable data on the patient’s blood sugar levels and the different triggers that cause spikes. “For a detailed profile, a doctor should interact with a patient for at least an hour at every consultation. Also, the patient should get their blood sugar levels checked many times through the day at strategic times, such as after a meal or some physical activity that have a bearing. Now, this is impossible. This tech involvement gives me all the data I need to understand the patient’s condition. It tells me the causes of high blood sugar levels such as particular food groups or specific conditions such as stress. I tailor the treatment plan accordingly. In many cases, I have brought down the blood sugar levels by up to 30 per cent through diet modifications only, and no medication. The medication administered with this knowledge is efficient too,” explains Dr Abhijit. Given the lack of time and historic data, diabetes is treated merely by fasting and post-prandial tests or HbA1c condition. With many factors causing elevated levels, this technology arms the doctor with insight into the causes, enabling a customized treatment plan that yields optimum results.  How it works A sensor with a filament is taped to the patient’s arm above the elbow. The filament is subcutaneously-impaled. The sensor analyses the blood sugar level from the interstitial fluid every 15 minutes ie 96 readings in a day. It has a chip that stores the data. The sensor is connected to an app that the patient has to download onto their smart phone. The sensor and app are connected through the internet. The app analyses data generated by the sensor.   The data is stored on the cloud. The doctor retrieves this and gets a detailed picture on what causes spikes in the patient’s blood sugar levels. The advice, thus given, covers activity, diet and medication, specific to the patient’s condition. This leads to better outcome. Sometimes, just lifestyle modifications will bring the sugar levels within normal range, making medication unnecessary. What impact does this have? Improves glucose control. Reduces medication when not needed. Around 30% reduction in blood sugar levels seen with no medication in many cases. Treatment of diabetes will be based on patterns and not one test. This enables customized and more intelligent care. Effect of all categories of food consumed is known. Advice is based on this intelligence, not guesswork. With this data, more variants of diabetes are being discovered, beyond Type I and II. Medication based on diagnosis aided by this accurate data is more effective. It is possible to predict the onset of diabetes. Pre-diabetes risk factors emerge, are analysed and with just lifestyle management onset of diabetes is prevented.  Over time, the voluminous data generated will be useful. It can be analysed to identify patterns for more effective treatment. The way forward “Even today, we treat diabetes with just one test. All this will change with this technology. Diabetes care in the world will change. We will learn more about diabetes, its triggers, and ways to manage it better,” says Dr Abhijit Bhograj.  Given the endless possibilities of big data analysis, Artificial Intelligence and digital healthcare, it is breakthrough tech applications such as this that can make a huge difference to people’s lives. An enormous amount of time and productivity is lost due to ill health caused by elevated sugar levels across the world. This technology will create a healthier and more productive society.

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Anxiety among medical fraternity after attack on another doctor for not knowing Kannada

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A 28-year-old doctor as attacked in Bengaluru by three unknown men for not knowing Kannada.

Dr Nimeshika Jayachandran

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Bengaluru has always been a melting pot of different cultures and languages which have found a way to coexist. However, language activism rears its head every now and then. A 28-year-old man from Kengeri was assaulted while sitting with his friend near Shell petrol pump in Kengeri by three men for allegedly saying that he didn’t know how to speak Kannada. The incident took place at 3am on November 22. Following the attack, a complaint was filed by the victim, a doctor and a resident of Kengeri, and his friend. In his complaint, Vivek* has stated that he and his friend had been sitting at the petrol bunk eating snacks when three men approached them and upon overhearing their conversation said, “You’ve come to our state and eat our food, you can’t speak Kannada?” This led to a quarrel between them at which point one of the men grabbed Vivek by the collar and began to hit him. Vivek’s friend began to record the incident on his phone but the other two men caught him after which one man began beating him and the other took his phone and deleted the video. Onlookers called the police to the petrol bunk, but by the time the police reached the spot, the three attackers had fled. It was then that Vivek approached the Kengeri police station to give a complaint. An FIR was registered against “three unknown persons” under sections 506 (criminal intimidation), 341 (wrongful restraint), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), and 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). As per reports, the accused were caught and apprehended, but were let go on bail within a day. Once it came to light that Vivek is a doctor, several members from the medical fraternity have spoken out condemning the incident which comes in the aftermath of protests at Victoria Hospital. Doctors across the city have expressed their anger at the situation, drawing attention to how closely it resembled an earlier attack on a postgraduate student from Minto Eye Hospital in Bengaluru for not speaking in Kannada. “Assault on language issue is not new in the public sector. It has happened to bank employees in the past. However assault on doctors is something that has been increasing in the past few years and that to with regards to the language issue is something that’s being seen more only in recent days,” says Dr Dayanandan Sagar, PG Resident at Victoria Hospital, who is also a part of the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) which protested against the earlier attack on a doctor, “Doctors serve beyond language, in the Minto incident, the doctor could speak Kannada fluently, however even then she was attacked under this pretext of language.” On November 1, on the day of Kannada Rajyotsava Day a postgraduate student doctor who was in the outpatient clinic at Minto Eye Hospital was attacked by members of a pro-Kannada outfit, the Kannada Rakshana Vedika (KRV). It later emerged that she was assaulted for not speaking to the KRV members in Kannada. Following this, several doctors, medical students and staff from Bangalore Medical College (BMC) and its affiliated Victoria Hospital (on the premises of which Minto Eye Hospital is located) took to protesting. They announced an indefinite strike on non-emergency services in the hospitals. Their protest was supported by the Indian Medical Association (IMA). However, soon after Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Ashwath Narayan met and assured the doctors that increased security measures would be given, the protest was called off. Accordingly, around 50 home guards have been stationed at the hospital to provide security to the hospital staff. “While it certainly helps to establish a more personal connection with the patient when a doctor knows the local language, it ultimately is not a necessity. We have other means of communication and can get a translator to ensure that the patient is made comfortable and understands what the doctor is relaying. Using this pretext of language is absurd to attack us doctors,” adds a senior consultant from Victoria Hospital.

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