Fake call centre busted in Kolkata, 10 arrested
Kolkata (PTI): A fake call centre was busted in Kolkata's Kasba area on Wednesday and 10 people working there were arrested, police said.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a building in Kasba and found several people, mostly from outside West Bengal, making calls using mobile phones.
They had also sent WhatsApp texts, allegedly promising rewards and prizes using forged documents carrying the names, logos and seals of several organisations, a police officer said.
They also created a fake lottery website of a southern state using doctored images of government officials and ministers from there, he said.
"The website link was allegedly shared with victims to induce them to transfer money as processing or registration fees into anonymous bank accounts through various payment modes," he added.
Thirty mobile phones, one laptop, several incriminating materials and fake identity cards of financial companies were seized during the raid, he added.
"The arrested persons claimed to have received payments or commissions from an individual in Kharagpur, and investigators suspect that others from the industrial town and neighbouring areas may also be involved," he added.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
