BANGALORE: The Halasuru police arrested a woman and her son from Chennai for allegedly trying to take over the management of Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences, Whitefield, of DK Adikesavulu with forged documents.
Valasala Madhu and her son Arun Kumar were arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by the institute.
They are natives of Broadway Road, Nayanappan Street in Chennai.
According to Halasuru police, Dr D V Chalapathi, an associate professor of the institute, filed a complaint against the two.
Chalapathi said he was attacked near Halasuru lake in May, by some men who wanted him to handover the medical college’s management to a trust owned by Valasala. But Chalapathi had refused to do so.
According to the police, the two produced a forged memorandum of understanding of Rs 2,000 crore.
“In the memorandum, the agreement said the private college will be handed over to the accused’s trust by paying an advance of Rs 100 crore,” said Thammaiah, inspector of Halsuru police station.
Valsala, the prime accused, claimed she ran a trust called Valsala Education Trust.
However, on investigating, the police found that there was no such trust.
Another private college from the city has also approached them alleging that the accused had even tried to dupe them some time ago.
Investigation revealed that the accused have allegedly tried to extort money from different universities in a similar way.
With the forged document, they were approaching higher government officials and businessmen for monetary favours, police said.
BMTC bus kills woman in Madiwala
A 32-year-old, unidentified woman was killed when a BMTC bus knocked her down near Silk Board junction in Madiwala police station limits on Wednesday night.
According to the police, a speeding BMTC bus, which was going towards BTM Layout, came recklessly and knocked her down while she was crossing the road.
The police are trying to identify the woman.
Meanwhile, the bus driver has been arrested and a case has been registered against him.
Man killed in road accident
A software engineer was killed when a canter lorry hit his motorcycle in R T Nagar police station limits on Tuesday night.
The victim has been identified as Arun Kumar (31), a resident of Kamalanagar. Police said he was returning from Manyata Tech Park, Hebbal, to his house when the accident took place.
A case has been registered.