Karnataka - Bangalore

Guidelines to be framed for dealing with disputes

BANGALORE: The Bangalore city police have initiated the process of formulating guidelines to deal with complaints of civil nature such as land-grabbing, cheating and property disputes.

Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari decided to frame guidelines following the increase in the number of complaints about the ways in which the police were dealing with cases involving land-grabbing, cheating and property disputes.

“The guidelines will help the investigation officer in deciding about the way he should deal in specific situations,” Mr. Bidari told presspersons on Friday after the Janaspandana programme. A group of working women and housewives accused a woman — Rekha — of cheating them of sites.

“She has taken amounts ranging between Rs. 3 lakh and Rs. 16 lakh and promised to give sites near Devanahalli and HRBR Layout. She has neither given sites nor returned the money. We are being threatened,” said Anupama Pradeep from Jayanagar.

Raju, a welder and resident of Chinchaghatta, recollected the harassment from the police and public after his relative, who was running a chit fund, vanished. “My relative, who was illegally running a chit fund business, has run away with the money. I am being detained by those who invested money with my relative,” said Raju.

Pitiable was the state of 77-year-old P. Natarajan. “I have come here to ask for a meal. My children are not looking after my 65-year-old wife and me,” he said and added, “I am not getting old age pension of Rs. 400 every month. I do not have money to claim concession for bus pass and for treating a defect in my eye.” Mr. Natarajan had come from Ramamurthy Nagar.

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