Cycling Clubs of Mangaluru create voting awareness
Mangaluru: In a bid to create voting awareness among the general public, nearly 150 cyclists, majority of them belonging to Mangalore Cycling Club (MACC) and Mangalore Bicycle Club (MBC), on Sunday took out a bicycle rally in the city.
Flagging off a bicycle rally, District SVEEP Committee head and Zilla Panchayat CEO M.R. Ravi said that the rally will be passed through core Mangaluru region, where the voting percentage had been 65 in the last Assembly elections.
People need to be sensitised to come out of their houses and cast their votes, Mr. Ravi said.
SVEEP ambassador and actor Naveen D. Padil said that people need to be aware of their rights and campaigns like the bicycle rally would help in the matter.
Club members, general public and a few school students then pedalled their way through the central parts of the city.
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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.
