Mangaluru: Hawwa Binthi Aboobakar passes away
Mangaluru, May 16: Hawwa Binthi Aboobakar , wife of Late K.A Muhammad Soofi Banakal passed away on Wednesday evening at her son's house in Kaikamba, Mangaluru. She was 77.
Born and brought up in Uppinangady of Dakshina Kannada District, Hawwa was the first Muslim girl to pursue high school education in her town at a time when Muslim girls were hardly getting formal education in Coastal Karnataka.
A voracious reader of Islamic literature in Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu languages, Hawwa learnt Quranic Arabic at an early age through self-study. In 2013, Mangaluru based publishing house Shanthi Prakashana had felicitated her as part of its silver jubilee celebration for her three decade long efforts towards promoting Islamic literature among Kannada readers.
She is survived by six sons and three daughters including NRI activist Iqbal Soofi and Writer Sharafuddin Soofi. Her funeral will be conducted on Thursday at Huda Masjid, Nekkilady, Uppinangady, said her family sources.
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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.
