Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Guns Come To Bangalore....

"Forest minister Gurupadappa Nagamarapalli's son Suryakanth Narayan Nagamarapalli was arrested on Monday by Cubbon Park police after he opened fire at a pub, 1912, on St Mark's Road at 2.30 am on Sunday."

Pretty sad that an innocent bystander was injured. Guess this also rules out 1912 staying open past 11:30.

More at ToI

9 comments:

chamique said...

Recently a couple of us went clubbing and the guys were frisked at the entrance. (The girls got away with a once-over, but maybe we were given the benefit of the doubt because one can't really hide drugs or ammo in stringy tops.)
At the time my friends were incensed.
Doesn't seem all that stupid anymore.

Dilettante said...
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Dilettante said...

*gasp* NGO woman goes clubbing.
Just kidding, Chamique.

Apparently this person is known to whip out his weapon in public (or should I say firearm?).

A friend of mine knows a guy who knows this guy (tenuous I know) and there are some very funny stories floating about him in Bangalore.

blr bytes said...

Which guy? The drug dealer or the ministers son?

Speaking of which, when we went to Pasha, we were frisked, sent through a metal detector, open packets of cigarettes were confiscated (though tagged and returned on exit. Apparently an anti-drug use thing.) and cameras were confiscated (similarly tagged and returned. This has to do with the story of pictures from this particular club landing up on the front page of a local newspaper which led to the cops closing down the hotel as a whole!) Sambhar Mafia

But hot dang! It was a party inside!

Mr. D said...

yeah, that chennai club thing in the papers, i saw, was funny...

Dilettante said...

Strange how ToI mentioned the name '1912'. A newspaper (even the ToI) would normally have mentioned 'pub on such-and-such road'. Maybe a rival pub paid them :-)

BB: It was the minister's son.

blr bytes said...

Do tell!

Anonymous said...

Aaaree Yaaar, all of you are loosing the plot here. Can't you see this is Deve Gowda's master plan of chasing away everyone from this city. So what if an innocent bystander got shot? Its for a better Bangalore, he should be given a Red Heart bravery award....or whatever the hell that is called.

DOWN DOWN CONGRESS...UP UP JD(U),JD(S)JD(P),JD(E) etc.

Anonymous said...

Ha ha ha.....see all my poltical campaigning actually worked. Get ready people, things are gonna change quickly !!