Uttarakhand: 3 held for illegally transporting youngsters to Myanmar to force them into cybercrime
Dehradun (PTI): Three individuals allegedly involved in fraudulently transporting people to Myanmar through Thailand to commit cybercrimes have been arrested, the Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) said.
According to the STF, the arrested individuals are among those whose names emerged during the interrogation of nine victims from Bageshwar, Pithoragarh, and Udham Singh Nagar districts, who were recently repatriated from Myanmar.
It stated that several Indian youths from various states, including Uttarakhand, who were living illegally in KK Park in Myawaddy town, Myanmar, were repatriated. The nine youths from Uttarakhand were brought here from Delhi and handed over to their families.
The STF on Sunday said that during interrogation, it emerged that Indian agents, under an organised scheme, allegedly defrauded these youths of substantial sums of money, sent them abroad using Thai visas, and then illegally infiltrated them in KK Park in Myawaddy.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Indian agents contacted the victims in person or through mobile applications such as Telegram and WhatsApp, and after extorting money, sent them to Bangkok.
STF Assistant Superintendent of Police Kush Mishra said that Sunil Kumar, a resident of Jaspur in Udham Singh Nagar district, Nirav Chaudhary and Pradeep, residents of Kashipur in Udham Singh Nagar district, have been arrested so far.
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Accept Congress decision appointing V D Satheesan as Kerala CM: K C Venugopal
Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi (PTI): Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal on Thursday accepted the party decision to select V D Satheesan as the chief minister of Kerala and congratulated him.
Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Venugopal, who was one of the three persons being considered for the post, said he will provide all support to the CM and the UDF government in Kerala.
The decision comes more than 10 days after the results of the April Assembly polls in Kerala were declared.
The Congress-led UDF secured a more than two-thirds majority in the Kerala Assembly elections, but the party has been unable to decide its chief ministerial face due to lobbying by different camps and protests by workers at the ground level.
Besides, Satheesan and Venugopal, senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala was also in the race for the CM post.
