Bantwal : Assailants throng home and attack Billava leader Sanjeev Poojari, woman
Bantwal,May 11: A group of assailants carried out a deadly attack on Bantwal Congress Election Campaign Chairman, Rai's friend and Billava leader Sanjeev Poojari at his house in Marnabail near Melkar on Thursday night.
It has been accused that the miscreants thronged into Poojari's house and attacked his wife and staff member besides damaging his car.
While Poojari was going in his car on Thursday night, a group of assailants reportedly stopped the four-wheeler, dragged out who all were sitting in it and started beating them.
Later, they thronged into Sanjeev Poojari's house and carried out a deadly attack on his wife and escaped. Poojari's staff members Shankar, Ammi, Iqbal, and others have been injured in the attack.
Minister Ramanath Rai along with party leaders, workers, visited the spot; admitted the Injured to Thumbe private hospital. Additional SP Sujeet, IPS officer Akshay, and other officers are investigating the case.
The Congress leaders have given four separate complaints about the incident. More details are yet to be ascertained by the police department.
The police department, which has already identified the Bantwal constituency as the most sensitive communal area, has beefed up the security in the area in the wake of the Assembly polls and has been conducting special surveillance across the constituency as well as deployed Central Armed Forces. The violence that has erupted before polling day is leading to a widespread anxiety in the civil society.
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Online fraud: Hotel chef from Udupi cheated of over Rs 1 lakh by WhatsApp contact
Udupi: Udupi City Police have registered a case of online fraud after a 62-year-old hotel chef was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.13 lakh by a woman who befriended him on WhatsApp, claiming to be based in London.
The victim, identified as Pandu Kariappa Poojary, a resident of Kuthpadi in Udupi, was working at a hotel in Mangaluru.
He reportedly came into contact with a woman identifying herself as Emilda William on WhatsApp. During their interactions, she told Poojary that she planned to start a cosmetics and hotel business in India and would meet him during a visit to Mangaluru.
On April 7, Emilda sent Poojary a flight ticket from London to Delhi via WhatsApp. The following day, Poojary received a phone call from a woman who informed him that Emilda had arrived at Delhi airport carrying a demand draft worth Rs 5 crore along with other items. The caller allegedly asked him to pay Rs 70,000.
Subsequently, Poojary also received a call from Emilda, who was reportedly crying and spoke about the situation. Believing the claims, he transferred a total of Rs 1,13,300 in phases using a scanner. He later realised that he had been cheated.
