Kelinja: Clashes break out between Congress-BJP workers; four injured
Bantwal: Four persons injured in a clash between Congress and BJP workers on Saturday night at Kelinja in the limits of Vittala Police Station.
Congress party activists Azeez and Salim were injured in the clash and now taking treatment at Vittala Community Hospital. No information was available on the injured BJP activists.
Incident details
On Saturday night, Congress-JDS activists were reportedly engaged in victory in and around Vittala. The Congress party workers raised the ‘BJP Murdabad’ slogans; in retaliation, local BJP activists too started shouting ‘Congress Murdabad’ slogans. Consequently, both the party workers indulged in a verbal altercation which ended with attacking each other with soda bottles.
Soon, the incident of Kelinja spread at surrounding places of Vittala through social networking sites, due to which a group clash is also reported from a village in Kolnadu Town. Four persons, including Dhanraj, were injured and admitted to Puttur hospital. The police visited the spot and as a precautionary step closed all the shops in the affected area.
Police officials Sajith VJ, D. Kumar, Prakash, and Prasanna, visited the spot and investigated.
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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.
