Man arrested for stealing money by changing QR code of petrol pump
Aizawl, Nov 10: A 23-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for stealing money by replacing a QR code sticker displayed at a petrol pump in Aizawl, a senior police officer said.
The accused has been identified as H. Lalrohlua, a resident of Lunglei's Hrangchalkawn, who currently lives in Aizawl's Armed Veng locality, he said.
Mizoram Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Lalbiakthanga Khiangte said that a complaint was received from the manager of Mizofed's petrol pump at Treasury Square in Aizawl on Saturday stating the scanned QR code sticker displayed at the filling station for transaction by customers was replaced by miscreant at around 3 pm on that day.
Acting on the complaint, the police launched an investigation and arrested Lalrohlua on ground of suspicion on Sunday, he said.
After being thoroughly questioned, the accused, who has no previous criminal record, admitted to have committed the crime, he said.
The accused printed his own GPay QR code and displayed it at the filling station by replacing the legitimate one displayed by the Mizofed, a public sector undertaking, he said.
Khiangte further said that the accused received Rs 2,315 in three transactions through GPay and repaid Rs 890 to one of the payees.
He spent the remaining amount of Rs 1,425, the senior police officer said.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
