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• The New Indian Express22 July 2026

  Narcotics worth ₹28 crore seized

  Seven interstate peddlers held in Bengaluru. The Anti-Narcotic Wing operation was led by ACP L.Y. Rajesh. (22 July 2026)

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• Public TV24 July 2026

  DG Medal presented to ACP Rajesh

  Public TV coverage of the DG–IGP Commendation honour. (24 July 2026)

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  Bangalore Mirror

  42 students pass after a 21-day camp

  A coaching camp for would-be dropouts pays off in the board results.

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  Bangalore Mirror

  A police station asks to be judged

  Darpana invites residents to grade the police that serve them.

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  Bangalore Mirror

  The fine is green and green is fine

  “When this sapling grows into a tree, they will be reminded of their mistake…” — traffic violators handed a sapling instead of only a fine.

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  Deccan Herald

  First in India: traffic cops pool money to save lives

  On a stretch where hospitals demanded a deposit before treatment, Devanahalli’s officers built an emergency fund from their own pockets.

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  Bangalore Mirror2 January 2018

  Attibele cops are on a roll

  Counselling, watchfulness and honest work in place of punishment alone — and a reformation pledge to start the year on.

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  Bangalore Mirror28 March 2011

  Now, cameras keep an eye on law enforcers

  CCTV installed inside the station at his own cost — pointed at the police, not the public.

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  DNA

  We are Indians first

  More than 600 people walked a half-hour peace march organised by the HSR Layout police on the eve of the Ayodhya verdict — children, auto drivers, filmstars and shopkeepers together.

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  Bangalore Mirror

  Traffic cops to fund accident relief

  Devanahalli’s traffic staff fund an Emergency Accident Relief corpus out of their own salaries, from constable to inspector, so no victim waits on a deposit.

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  CityPlus18 February 2011

  They celebrate their birthdays in police station

  A station that keeps finding reasons for people to walk in: staff birthdays marked together, to break the idea that a police station only means trouble.

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  Bangalore Mirror30 November 2010

  Egg on policeman’s face… and cream and sugar too

  HSR Layout police sing “Happy Birthday” for a colleague who had not remembered it was his own. “We spend more time in the police station than at home.”

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  CityPlus

  Cops take initiative to spread peace message

  More than 1,000 people joined a peace procession through the neighbourhood, walked with actors and religious leaders at the police station’s invitation.

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  CityPlus

  Work & play go well with these policemen

  Two hours of the evening set aside as recreation for staff on duty — badminton on a court built behind the station — as a deliberate answer to the stress of the job.

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  The Times of India

  More than nabbing criminals

  Crime Prevention Month: a two-hour presentation to 500 school students on how to be careful, and how not to be afraid of the police.

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  Nimma Bengaluru

  Blood donation camp

  HSR Layout’s welfare associations, youth committees and Lions Club hold a donation camp at his farewell. “He has earned such tremendous public admiration that his example needs to be followed.”

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  Cops are kind too — Inspector Rajesh proves

  A college girl told him, “I am from a poor family. I have lost my father and my mother keeps herself busy as a flower seller.” He arranged for the payment of her studies.

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  Prajavani

  Advice: build a better bond with the people

  “Only when there is a good bond between the police and the public can crime be controlled effectively,” the City Police Commissioner said at a free health camp that screened more than a thousand people.

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  Free health check-up camp at Bismillah Nagar

  The Mico Layout police station, the Ikyata Pratishthana and a private hospital run a free screening camp, inaugurated by the City Police Commissioner.

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  Newspaper clipping

  ‘Daari Deepa’ — a guiding light for poor students

  A programme run from the station for students who could not otherwise pay their way through school.

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  Newspaper clipping

  A promotion marked by a blood donation camp

  Associations and students of Anekal town organise a donation camp to mark the promotion of the sub-inspector who had served there.

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  Newspaper clipping

  Farewell: a blood donation camp

  For the circle inspector’s farewell, HSR Layout’s welfare associations, youth bodies, the student awareness committee and the Lioness Club hold a camp at the Oxford College grounds.

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  Newspaper clipping

  Police help centre opens in Napoklu

  “Public cooperation is essential for any work done for the people.” With it, he said, the town had already been able to ban smoking and plastic.

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  Newspaper clipping

  Police help centre inaugurated

  The new help centre at Napoklu opens, and the local businessman who paid to build it is felicitated.

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  Newspaper clipping

  “I could not achieve as much as I had hoped”

  Police are known for never conceding a fault. The Mico Layout inspector says openly that he fell short of what he set out to do — and that with more public cooperation, the ward can do better.

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  Deccan Chronicle

  Cops set out to promote Kannada

  Anyone who comes to Mico Layout station to lodge a complaint is gifted a copy of “Learn Kannada in 30 days”. So far, more than 640 books have been given away.

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  Bangalore Mirror8 November 2018

  Class act to bridge North-South divide

  Every Sunday, a police inspector runs Kannada classes at an HSR Layout school. “I came across many such incidents. So I thought of providing classes to put an end to misunderstandings over language.”

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  Urban Chronicle

  Kannada gothilla? City cop out to break the language barrier

  From a family of teachers: teaching Kannada to those in the city as a way of dealing with cases of road rage, and lecturing rowdies on the virtues of reforming into law-abiding citizens.

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  Newspaper clipping

  Language initiative: a confidence booster

  English classes for the International Airport traffic police at Devanahalli, so officers meeting travellers from around the world can hold the conversation themselves.

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  “It is a regret that Kannada needs awareness camps in Kannada’s own land”

  Speaking at a Kannada Sahitya Parishat programme on the everyday use of the language in Mulbagal taluk.

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  Newspaper clipping

  The police officer who loves Kannada…!

  In a city where everyone is in a hurry, an officer who sits with non-Kannada speakers who come to the station with a complaint, and teaches them the language.

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  Newspaper clipping23 April 2006

  “Dr. Raj is not a person, he is the strength of Kannada” — Rajesh

  Speaking at a tribute meeting for Dr. Rajkumar held in the border region.

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  POLICE (monthly)December 2013

  Social service as a calling

  A magazine profile of the Mico Layout inspector — “a rare blend of professional service and social service” — who credits the instinct to his parents, both teachers.

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• Prajavani

  ₹5 lakh prize money, donated to students

  His award money goes back to the children he coached.

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  Nimma Bengaluru

  HSR Inspector felicitated

  On his promotion, a felicitation at the Ambedkar Bhavan community hall in Parangipalya. “A person can try all he may to kill himself by tying a noose around his neck…” — on the crime rate falling and staying down.

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  Mysore MitraOctober 2004

  A farewell for the Napoklu station officer

  Kodagu district marks the transfer of its station house officer.

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  Newspaper clipping23 May 2006

  A warm farewell for Rajesh

  Mulbagal felicitates the sub-inspector and his wife on his transfer to Anekal. “He became a sub-inspector very young, served with dedication, and earned the love and trust of the people.”

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  Newspaper clipping

  An honour for a police officer’s service

  Mulbagal felicitates the transferred sub-inspector at a public function.

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  The New Indian Express

  Encroachment: cops, BDA men attacked by gang

  A team of about ten officials went to demolish a shed built illegally on BDA property; three constables, an inspector and two BDA officials were injured. Four assailants held so far.

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  Bangalore Mirror

  Cops trace hit-and-run van from a monogram

  Devanahalli traffic police build a case on purely circumstantial evidence — a broken indicator, shards of orange plastic, and a T3500 monogram off the frame of the vehicle’s mirror.

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  Bangalore Mirror

  Cops’ ‘cold turkey’ pill makes car thief squeal

  Mico Layout police, refused details of ten stolen cars, tried a new tack: they noticed the accused was a chain smoker, and stopped offering him a cigarette.

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  Deccan Herald

  Lost and found

  Property worth ₹1.16 crore recovered in 76 cases — 14 cars, 18 two-wheelers, 21 gold chains, 24 laptops — put on display at Koramangala police station.

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  Deccan Herald

  Rowdy killed in encounter

  A rowdy wanted in several major crimes is gunned down in a pre-dawn encounter on Nagawara Ring Road; an inspector sustains a bullet injury to his hand.

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  The Times of India

  Three days is all she took

  A domestic help, fluent in four languages, who took work in affluent homes and vanished on the third day. HSR Layout police built a portrait from descriptions and traced her to Tiruchirappalli.

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  The Times of India

  Gang kidnaps 12 bar girls, held after hot chase

  A six-member gang takes twelve dancers from Koramangala at knifepoint at 11.25pm; by 6.25am the vehicles are located at Bagalur and all are recovered.

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  The Times of India13 July 2009

  Fit of anger, death and then a confession

  A moment’s irritation, a six-year-old dead, and a man who went to a rehabilitation centre and confessed. HSR Layout police reopened it as a murder case.

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  DNA

  Car race aspirant held for auto thefts (mostly SUVs)

  Ten stolen vehicles recovered by Mico Layout police. He wanted to be home in Tamil Nadu in time to take part in an annual Coimbatore car racing event.

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  Newspaper clipping

  The black box solution to car theft menace

  A device that lets an owner stall the engine of a stolen car from a mobile phone — police banking on awareness and technology as vehicle thefts climb.

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  Newspaper clipping

  Tough goons, tougher cops

  A survey of the officers behind seven encounters in six months, listing him among the city’s senior inspectors by years in service and cases closed.

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  Vijaya Karnataka

  Darjeeling couple murdered: life sentence for the killers

  Four accused in the 2010 HSR Layout killing of Amrith and Janaki are given life imprisonment by the 14th Additional Sessions Court.

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  Prajavani

  Youth abducted for money: three held

  HSR Layout police arrest three — including a journalism student — for abducting a 20-year-old, and bring him back safely.

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  E-Sanje15 April 2013

  Rowdy Sirajuddin arrested

  Mico Layout police hold a rowdy and his associates who had planned a robbery.

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  Newspaper clipping

  Interstate car thieves held: 10 cars worth ₹75 lakh recovered

  Cars lifted across Bengaluru and sold on in Madurai, Vadamapatti and Rajapalayam — traced by a special team from the Mico Layout station.

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  Newspaper clipping

  Southeast Division’s big haul: ₹1.47 crore recovered

  The City Police Commissioner inspects property recovered from accused arrested across a run of cases.

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  Newspaper clipping

  Accused arrested within 12 hours of the theft

  HSR Layout police close a burglary the same day and recover the stolen property.

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  Newspaper clipping6 December 2014

  Karnataka police in Salem to question the accused

  An inspector, a sub-inspector and an ASI travel to Salem Central Jail after the sketch of a killer matched a man shot in a Bengaluru incident.

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