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Another Techie involved in Crime :HR professional held for smashing ATM with helmet

HR professional held for smashing ATM with helmet Sharath Sharma Kalagaru bmfeedback@indiatimes.com      Thyagaraja Nagar police detained a man for smashing a private bank's Automated Teller Machine with his helmet, and fighting with the ATM security guard on Monday night. According to police, the man, identified as 30-year-old HR professional Venkataramanan, was under the influence of alcohol.  Trouble started when the guard told Venkataramanan not to wear his helmet while using the ATM, near SSM School Thyagaraja Nagar. When the latter could not withdraw money from the ATM after repeated attempts, hesmashedtheATMscreenwithhishelmet.An angry guard took him to task, and there was a heated exchange.  Policeturnedupatthesceneafterpassers-by tippedthemoffabouttheruckus.Thecopstook Venkataramanan to the police station and let him go after booking a petty case against him.

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B’lore techie found dead in New Jersey hotel room

Rajiv Kalkod TNN 

Bangalore: A 26-year-old techie from Bangalore, who was in the US on an assignment, allegedly committed suicide in a New Jersey hotel room last week. He was wanted in connection with the murder of an American woman. 
    Pawan Kumar Anjaiah, a software engineer with business and technology services major Cognizant, died allegedly of drug overdose, according to US media reports quoting Delaware state police. He died in a room in Belleville city of Wayne county in New Jersey state on June 19. 
    The body of Pawan, a resident of RT Nagar, is in a Belleville hospital, sources told TOI. With no sign of the body arriving in Bangalore though a week has elapsed since his death, Pawan’s family accused his employers of having washed their hands of the case and telling them not to speak to the media about it. But Cognizant denied this and said it was providing all assistance. 
    Pawan’s family believes he was innocent and not the kind who would be involved in any crime. Delaware police were looking for Pawan in connection with the alleged murder of Danille Mehlman, a 26-year-old teacher and mother of a four-year-old boy. Her body was found with multiple stab wounds in a hotel room in Dewey Beach, Delaware, on June 18. 
    After preliminary investigations, Delaware police sounded an alert for Pawan, who was believed to have been sharing the room with the woman and possessed a deadly weapon. A day later, Pawan’s body was found in the locked room of Belleville Motor Lodge. Pawan, who went to the US on an H-1B visa (non-immigrant) in early 2011, was scheduled to return to Bangalore next week. IN THE HOUR OF TRAGEDY 
    It’s 
    Cognizant’s responsibility to bring the body back to Bangalore. First, they asked us not to go to the media. Now, they’re not answering our calls. Anjaiah | PAWAN’S FATHER We’re working with US authorities to see what assistance we can provide, including the return of his body to the parents. Our HR officials did not tell anyone not to go to the media. A Cognizant spokesman Pawan met woman through dating site 
Bangalore: Software engineer from Bangalore, Pawan Kumar Anjaiah (in pic), who reportedly committed suicide in the US, was wanted in connection with the murder of an American schoolteacher. 
    When he was a resident of New Wilmington, Delaware, Pawan reportedly met Danielle Mehlman through an online dating site. According to sources, Pawan allegedly stabbed Mehlman all over her body. Police located his image from a surveillance camera at a mall and issued an alert. 
    Blood and visceral samples from Pawan’s body have been sent for forensic tests to identify the drug he consumed. Pawan was the lone son of farmer Anjaiah and Ratnagangamma based in Pavagada of Tumkur district. Pawan stayed in Bangalore with the family of his elder sister, Gunasheela.

Pawan

Drunk techie runs amok near Malleswaram

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bangalore: An inebriated software engineer at the wheel of a Maruti Baleno car allegedly went astray on Sunday night and rammed a motorcycle, a four-wheeler and an autorickshaw, and brought down the wall of a house before grinding to a halt on 7th Main, Milk Colony, near Malleswaram.
    Narasimha Murthy, the software engineer and resident of Malleswaram, was returning from a party hosted at a hotel near Milk Colony, police said.
    A sloshed Murthy lost control over his car. He first hit a motorcycle on the main road and sped into a narrow lane in an attempt to escape from the spot.
    Murthy’s car then hit a Maruti Omni van parked by the roadside. The impact of the crash was such that the van hit the compound wall of the adjoining house and brought it down. The software engineer then hit an autorickshaw parked by the wayside and came to a stop. All this happened at 11.30pm.
    Narayan Swamy, the complainant, said: “Our van parked outside the house was damaged. The compound wall crashed and the mangled van was lying right at our door.”
    Police have detained Murthy. He has been booked under Section 279 of IPC for rash driving or riding on a public road and under Section 185 for drinking and driving. His car has been confiscated.


SERIAL SMASH: The compound wall that was damaged after software engineer Narasimha Murthy crashed his car (left) into it near Malleswaram on Sunday night

30 die as bus to Shirdi falls into rivulet

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Hyderabad/Aurangabad:
A pilgrimage turned into a tragedy for devotees headed to the holy town of Shirdi from Hyderabad when the bus they were in rolled into a deep, dry rivulet early Saturday, killing 30 people and injuring 17 others.
    The accident occurred near Jalkot on Solapur-Omerga NH in Osmanabad district, about 350 km from Aurangabad at around 2.30am. Most of the pilgrims travelling in the semisleeper Volvo bus were residents of Andhra Pradesh. Nine TCS techies among 30 killed in bus accident
Hyderabad/Visakhapatnam:
Big dreams and promising IT careers of nine trainees of Tata Consultancy Services’ Hyderabad campus were cruelly cut short on Saturday when the bus they were aboard en route to Shirdi plunged off a bridge.
    The nine techies were among the 30 people who were killed when the semi-sleeper Volvo bus run by Vijaywada-based tour operator, Sree Kaleshwari Travels, plunged into a rivulet, near Jalkot on Solapur-Omerga national highway in Osmanabad district in Maharashtra early Saturday.
    There were 13 TCS employees in the bus. While the condition of one TCS employee is learnt to be critical, three were understood to be out of danger. All of them were recruited by TCS last year from the Maharaja Vijayaram Gajapathi Raj College of Engineering at Vizianagaram in coastal Andhra. They had joined the company only in March this year, TCS sources confirmed.
    “They were all part of the company’s initial learning programme and were based out of the HiTech city campus,” a company official confirmed. TCS has a total of 20,000 headcount in Hyderabad.
    Expressing deep condolences, TCS Hyderabad’s regional head and vice-president V Rajanna termed the incident as shocking and said the company was providing all the necessary support to families of the victims.
    While the bus operator in Hyderabad pleaded innocence, district officials at Osmanabad blamed rash driving for the mishap. “The accident was caused due to negligent and rash driving. The passengers had warned him against driving fast but the driver ignored them,’’ said Ravindrasinh Pardeshi, the additional superintendent of police, Osmanabad. The district administration dispatched 22 bodies to Osmania General Hospital from Jalkot primary healthcare centre after the postmortem was completed.
    A police team from Naldurg was patrolling the area when they spotted the crashed bus. “They had to virtually cut the wreckage with whatever tools they could get at that time to rescue the passengers,” Pardeshi said.

Engg dropout jumps to death

TOI:
Bangalore: A contrite 23-yearold engineering dropout committed suicide on Thursday by jumping from his fourth-floor flat in Atishi Apartments in JP Nagar 5th Phase, after his parents reprimanded him for hiding the fact that he had given up on his studies.
    Son of chartered accountant Ramesh, Rakshith R left behind a suicide note in which he profusely apologized to his parents for not going to college and wasting the money given for his studies. He asked his parents to “forgive” and “forget” him.
    Rakshith joined BE (electrical and electronic) course at Jain Institute of Engineering in 2007. But he could not clear his second semester subjects to get into the next year.
    The boy hid this fact from his parents, and for the next three years, continued to claim that he was attending college. He spent most of his time roaming around near his house and stopped going to college. Rakshith’s parents learnt about their son’s educational status a couple of days ago. They chided him and left for Udupi on Thursday. Rakshith, his sister and brotherin-law stayed back in the flat.
    After his parents left the house in the morning, Rakshith jumped from the balcony, and died immediately after crashing to the ground. The body was taken to KIMS, where a post-mortem was conducted.