Fwd: Please read: Con artists in the ORR/HSR layout area

[Praveen Varkey]

 

From: Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:01 PM
To: GTI Ops Leadership Team India
Subject: Con artists in the ORR/HSR layout area

 

See police contact information below - highlighted.     Police advisory with specific numbers to call. Date: Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [sobhadaisy] Con artists in the ORR/HSR layout area   Response from HSR layout PI related to the recent muggings around our office area (came in Flora group, you might have seen this earlier) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------  The attachment didn't come through - so I am pasting the note from Rajesh, (with some minor formatting/corrections) L Y Rajesh, Police Inspector, HSR Layout Police station, shares tips to avoid getting mugged. Recently a certain type of vehicle mugging cases are on the rise. They seem to be targeting IT employees specifically. The areas that have been targeted are around Iblur junction, between Iblur and Marathahalli, or Iblur to Kaikondrahalli or Kaikondrahalli to Wipro. Timings is usually between 11 am to 4 pm. The offenders are riding a black Pulsar.  They are two or three of them. The vehicle has a kannada registration number plate. Identification marks: One person is stout and has a dark complexion. Another one is lean with medium complexion. MODUS OPERANDI They stop your vehicle on a pretext, saying that you caused an accident.   Before stopping your vehicle, they continuously honk. Till the time you stop your vehicle, they are behind.   With little opportunity, immediately they sit inside your vehicle.   They try to panic you by saying: by accident you have injured a person and compensation has to be paid.  They tell you, you have to pay the amount immediately, as the injured person is the brother of a local Don. If you don’t settle, the amount might be problem and they induce you to pay the money. They ask you to give the money, by drawing from an ATM. Usually they target a person driving alone in the vehicle. They will persuade you to pay the money, they speak Kannada and broken Hindi. They will take money or gold but not cell phone. HOW TO PREVENT AND HOW YOU CAN HELP THE POLICE IN NABBING THEM. If you come across such an incident, be bold, do not panic. Lock the internal locks of the vehicle. So that they cannot sit inside your vehicle. If by chance they get into your vehicle, get out immediately - you will be in a public place. Raise your voice and call the people around. Immediately take their photograph and as well as vehicle number plate with your cell phone. If they try to threaten you or manhandle you, keep a pepper spray as a defense and use it properly and carefully “if necessaryâ€. In there are any such cases or even if you suspect any such persons in the locality, please call on the below mentioned cell phone numbers. If you are bold enough, immediately snatch their bike keys. Take their photographs, call the police, if the public are willing to help, secure them and hand over to police. If you are smart/tactful enough and can hold them in conversion, inform the police by way of SMS or call and assure that you will pay them and engage them till police reaches you. You can even tell them that you can arrange money from your friend and take them to place, where you know the people and then try to catch them with the help of known people and hand over them to police. DON’TS Do not panic and give away all your valuables. Remember their operation is a planned one and even they are equally scared but they pretend to be courageous.  Do not lose your temper. Be cool and handle the situation diplomatically. Don’t take too much risk and don’t risk your life - your safety is more important. Don’t get down from the vehicle. And don’t allow any stranger to get into your vehicle. If they chase, immediately call the police or reach the traffic police for help. Stop the vehicle where there a lot of people and take their help. Please be bold. Bangalore is still safe. There is nothing to panic. We are optimistic that  we will be able to nab them. A squad comprising of four police personnel is formed to nab these fellows. Please remember our crime constables are now patrolling the same roads in plain clothes and their phone numbers is mentioned below. You can reach them for help either on the officers cell number, Cheetah number or Crime constable number. We are glad to serve you and we are at your service 24/7 to help the needy and bring the culprits before the court of law. We look forward for your cooperation.  Inspector Rajesh Ph: 9448448833 Sub-Inspector Mirza Ali Raza, Ph: 9972833003 Ashok (Towards Marathahalli) -9902660986 (on Cheetah) Vijayamurthy (Towards Iblur)-9980834703 (on Cheetah) Manjunath Ph: 9845668681 (Crime Squad) Ravindranath Ph: 9980399551 (Crime Squad)               ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Monideep Dutta <moni_sumi@yahoo. com> To: SMF owners <SMF-Owners@yahoogro ups.com> Sent: Wed, May 19, 2010 7:39:11 PM Subject: [SMF-Owners] (unknown)     Hi all, Thought of sharing with you a mail from Suncity. This is one mail we got from one of our friends. Take extra care/caution during such situations..   Dear Suncity Residents - I would like to inform you of a rather unpleasant incident that happened with me last Monday, when I was returning home from my office during daytime for lunch. As soon as I took the left turn from ORR towards Suncity, two people on a black colored pulsar bike behind me started honking wildly and came by side of the car, asking me to stop. I lowered my glass window and they told me that I have caused an accident while on the way and they have been trying to stop me by following me since then. After this they stopped the bike in front of my car and I had to stop the car just after Drapes View. I thought that there would have been a misunderstanding of some sort since I didn't recall being involved in any accident or hit while on my way. My intention was to talk to them and pacify them. As soon I stepped out of the car, the guy driving the bike said that I had driven the car over the foot of the person sitting on the pillion of the bike and that his foot was badly injured. He then said that there is a huge crowd that has gathered at the spot of the so called accident and I need to go back to that spot to settle things. After this they came and forcibly sat inside the car, leaving the bike outside. Bike driver who now sat on the front seat of my car started threatening me by claiming that the person I have injured is the younger brother of a local goon, Munianna and that he is not going to leave me unharmed for this. I tried to reason with him and offered to take the other person to hospit

 

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Praveen Varkey