Karkala: Girl among 2 graduates held for circulating fake currency
Karkala, Sep 20: Two business management graduates from Davanagere, including a girl, have been arrested by Udupi district police on the charge of circulating fake currency notes with a face value of Rs 200, police said.
They printed currency on their own after learning from tutorials on YouTube and purchased a printer through online for the purpose.
Chethan Gowda (23) and his girlfriend Arpita P Navale, both belonging to Davanagere, were held on Wednesday.
According to police, they had started to print fake currency notes and using it from the past 45 days.
An SUV, a printer and materials used for printing the fake currency have been seized from the accused, the police said.
Their luck ran out after an alert shopkeeper grew suspicious about a note, approached a bank to verify the currency and then informed the Karkala police.
Police found out that the accused have used at least 200 fake currency notes in various places.
The two were produced before the court which remanded Chethan in police custody and Arpita in judicial custody, the sources said.
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Nirmala Sitharaman, Narayana Murthy, Rahul Dravid among early voters in Bengaluru
Bengaluru (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, software industry icon N R Narayana Murthy, his wife and Rajya Sabha member Sudha Murty, former cricketer Rahul Dravid and actor Prakash Raj were among the early voters as polling began in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka on Friday.
Many booths reported brisk voting in the first hour of polling as people sought to "beat the heat".
Speaking to PTI Videos, Prakash Raj said he voted for the candidate that he has faith in and "for the issues mentioned in the manifesto of the parties."
"I have voted against the hate and people who are dividing the country. I have voted for a good representative from my constituency," he said.
Polling began at 7 am and will end at 6 pm.
A total of 247 candidates -- 226 men and 21 women -- are in the fray for the first phase in 14 segments covering most of the southern and coastal districts, where more than 2.88 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in 30,602 polling stations.
