Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai Gheraoed by BJP workers at Modi rally
Mangaluru, May 5: Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai was reportedly gheraoed by BJP workers during Modi rally in the city. Sardesai had came to Mangaluru to cover the election campaign of Prime minister Narendra Modi.
It is reported that Sardesai had made some infuriarating comment about BJP and Sangh parivar. Angered by this BJP workers started shouting slogan, Modi, Modi and obstructed and interruputed Sardesai's work.
However, on noticing this formar BJP MLC Monappa Bhandary urged the party workers and media to cooperate.
Though party supporters continued shouting Modi, Modi, Sardesai too continued his reporting by shifting one place to another. He did not wait Modi to finish his speech and left the ground well before the rally was over.
Later he tweeted, "A Modi rally is like an exercise in mass hypnosis. I try to ask the crowd a question, they simply shout with raucous glee, 'Modi, Modi'; the music on stage is like we are in a rock show not a political rally...(sic)."
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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.
