Bengaluru: Prathap NM, who earned the love and respect of the nation for creating drones using e-waste fell from grace after being exposed of his lies recently. Now the youth has got into fresh trouble by violating the quarantine rules, followong which the police formed three teams to nab him.

It may be recalled that Drone Prathap had made tall claims of having designed drones from e-waste that brought him international level fame and laurels. However, all of this was short-lived as he stood exposed.

On Sunday, the Karnataka police lodged an FIR against Prathap for violating quarantine rules to appear for a television interview to clarify the allegations that have been leveled against him. The police was forced to form teams when he went missing. 

It is said that Prathap had returned to Bengaluru from Hyderabad just a few days before appearing on the television show. Prathap had shown his ‘home quarantine’ seal on the live show and told the anchor that he has come out to table his clarifications despite having been necessitated to be at home.

The Bengaluru Bruhat Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) filed a case against him after the TV show.

After the telecast of the show, police and quarantine squad members went to question Prathap for his violation at his home in Anjanapura in Bengaluru on Saturday, but he was found missing.

There are speculations that Prathap may have left to Mandya, which is his native district.