Mangaluru: MP Naleen Kumar Kateel warned the state government to hold stir and call for Dakshina Kannada bundh, if the names involved in DySp Ganapati’s suicide case. Speaking to the media at central railway station on Friday he said that if the government can’t protect its own police officials, then how it will protect the […]

Mangalore : The DK District Police Department and the Western Range Police was organised a farewell function to the outgoing District Superintendent of Police Abhishek Goyal here on Monday 21st October at District Commisionarate office Mangalore. Goyal thanked to all officers of the department and IGP of Western Range. He said, in his two year […]

Udupi : Western Range IGP Pratap Reddy has said the police have gathered information from the  victim regarding the recent gang rape case. He also said two persons who tried to destroy evidence to shield the accused have been arrested. Addressing press persons, the IGP said Balachandra (40), the elder brother of Yogish, the accused […]

Udupi : Third accused in the Manipal gang-rape case, has been arrested at Badagabettu, Parkala late evening on Thursday Police sources said. The Main accused Anand was arrested and he had attempted to commit suicide, He was trying to hang himself by a tree. The local people survived him and informed to the police.  The […]

Udupi  : IGP Western Range Pratap Reddy has informed that eight police teams have been formed to apprehend  the accused in the case of gang rape of a medical student at Manipal on Thursday. Speaking to reporters here, he said the police department would step up efforts to apprehend the culprits at the earliest. He […]

Mangalore: Mangalore Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh who has left for Hyderabad on a compulsory training, is all likely to be transferred and may not return to Mangalore as Commissioner. According to Prathap Reddy, IGP Western Range,  Singh  is on a two-month long compulsory mid-career training programme including six week training at National Police Academy […]

Mangalore: “Jailininda Jailige Rangotsava’ an initiative by Sankalpa, Mysore in association with the Prison Department of Karnataka, has been widely appreciated. The inauguration of this programme was done by Pratap Reddy, IGP (Western Range) at the Town Hall in Mangalore on July 2, Monday. On the inaugural day prisoners from Mysore presented the Kannada version […]

Bangalore:  The Karnataka government on Saturday appointed Abdul Rehman Infant as the state’s new police chief, shunting out incumbent Shankar Bidari to the Karnataka State Police Housing Board. The shuffle of the top police brass came a day after a division bench of the Karnataka High Court Friday upheld the March 16 order of the […]

Bangalore: The Central Administrative Tribunal(CAT) on Friday cancelled a state Government order appointing Shankar M. Bidari as DGP-IGP of the state, and installed Abdul Rehman Infant as pro tem IGP on his seniority. Bidari promised to fight out his case in High Court soon, by appeal. Bidari’s documents relating to his stint in Anti-Veerappan Team […]

Bangalore: Gopal B. Hosur, who worked on Coastal region as IGP(Western Range) before being transferred to Bangalore, a senior rank police officer, had a narrow escape at Kunigal outskirts. When his car had a collision with a truck, at the Chottanahalli by-pass on the national highway, in Tumkur district last Sunday(March11). The former City Police […]