Police manhandles Journalist covering protest against CAA, NRC in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: Violating the prohibitory orders imposed in Mangaluru under section 144, protesters on Thursday demonstrated against the NRC and CAA near Deputy Commissioner’s office.
To disperse the crowd, police personnel sorted to Lathi Charge and detained several protesters.
Meanwhile the police personnel also manhandled a Vartha Bharati Journalist Ismail Zaorez, who was covering the protests along with a group of reporters and mediapersons at the spot.
“I was taking the videos when a group of policemen dragged me into the middle and started charging me. Despite having ID attached to my collar and repeatedly telling them that I was a media person they charged at me. One of the officer snatched my ID card” Ismail said.
“Luckily some of the reporters came to my rescue and convinced the officers that I was from the media. My ID card was later handed back to me” Ismail added.
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7 held for running fake call centre in South Kolkata
Kolkata (PTI): Seven people were arrested from the Parnashree area in the southern part of the city for allegedly running a fake call centre, a police officer said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house on Netaji Subhas Road on Friday night and found the fake call centre operating from the ground floor, he said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had set up a bogus company using forged documents and posed as employees of an antivirus firm to call citizens in the US, the officer said.
"The callers would gain the trust of victims and then use remote access to take control of their phones or other digital devices. The accused allegedly siphoned off large sums of money, running into millions of dollars, from victims' accounts," he said.
Five laptops, two WiFi routers, six mobile phones and four headsets were seized from the accused, he said, adding that the seven are being questioned to ascertain the full extent of the racket and to identify others involved.
