From Our Special Correspondent
Daijworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Jun 13: Perturbed by the kidnap and murder of two BBM students – Sudhindra and Vignesh -- of Mahajan College Mysore, the State Government has constituted a high-level four-member police team headed by Director General of Police Krishnam Raju of Central Crime Bench, Bangalore, to nab the kidnappers.
The two second year BBM students were kidnapped from Hunsur in Mysore district on May 8 for ransom and were subsequently murdered. The dead bodies were found at Chikkaballapur byepass road on Sunday.
Karnataka’s Home and Transport Minister R Ashok, who held a meeting of the top police officials on Monday, told presspersons that “nabbing the culprits, who murdered the two students is a biggest challenge for the police and all support would be given to the team to nab the kidnappers.’’
Sudhindra and Vignesh were kidnapped on June 8 while they were on their way to the college to write their examination.
Sudhindra’s father Mohan runs a hardware store in Hunsur, while Vignesh’s father Srinath has a grocery store.
The Minister said the kidnappers had shifted students from place to place daily and used the students’ to call their parents from different places using coinbooths instead of using cellphones, obviously fearing that the location could be traced, for demanding ransom from families of the victims. The kidnappers, the Minister suspected, were known to the families of the victims.
Ashok also instructed the top police not to leak any information related to underworld network.
He promised to visit Anti-Naxal Squad camps in the Malnad region to get information about the problems faced by the police personnel drafted to check naxal activities in the region.
There are about 15 Naxals in the region and about 100 police personnel have been deployed to check spread of naxal activities, he said.
Incidentally, Bangalore City Police Commissioner B G Jyotiprakash Mirj will pay a surprise visit to a police station in the city on every Monday to monitor the functioning of the station and assess the problems faced by the lower staff in the department.
The Home Minister said the Police Commissioner visited Banashankari police station and gathered information about the file movement, cases and other facilities available in the station.
The surprise visits by the top police official would not only improve the functioning but also enhance the police image in the public.
The Bangalore police would be made people friendly by undertaking various initiatives, Ashok said.