Man arrested in Mangaluru for threatening women, extorting money from them
Mangaluru: Kadri Police officers have arrested a 36-year-old man who has been accused of obtaining the mobile phone numbers of young women through social media and extorting money by threatening the women using pornographic videos.
The accused arrested is identified as Satish Hosamaru, a resident of Idu village of Karkala. He had allegedly obtained the phone numbers of the women through their Instagram and Facebook IDs and blackmailed them, claiming he had their pornographic videos and demanding money from them.
One of the women threatened by the arrested man filed a police complaint. She had also informed the police that she had been warned that the videos would be made viral on social media if she did not give him the money.
Kadri Police, who registered a case based on her complaint, probed the matter and arrested Hosamaru. They have also confiscated the arrested man’s mobile phone and are learned to have found documents related to the case on the phone.
Police have said that cases of theft and rape and defamation of a woman were booked against the arrested man in Karkala Town and Rural Police Stations. Hosamaru had also served a jail sentence in a theft case filed in Karkala Town Police Station one year ago, they added.
The investigation team included Kadri Inspector Somashekhar JC, Assistant Inspector Manohar Prasad and Criminal Investigation Department personnel.
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Vadodara car crash: FSL report reveals accused smoked marijuana, was not drunk
Vadodara: The main accused in the March 14 car crash in Vadodara, Rakshit Chaurasia, had smoked marijuana but was not under the influence of alcohol, according to the primary report from Gandhinagar’s Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL). Chaurasia, a 20-year-old law student, was driving a speeding car that rammed into two-wheelers near Muktanand crossroads in Karelibaug, killing a woman and injuring several others.
The FSL’s findings, as cited by police officials, revealed that Chaurasia’s blood sample tested positive for marijuana. Two others who were in the car with him—Praanshu Chauhan and Suresh Bharwad—also tested positive for the same. All three have been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985.
Chaurasia has also been booked under s. 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, which deals with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He is currently lodged in Vadodara Central Jail. Chauhan has also been arrested, while Bharwad remains absconding.
According to Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone 4, Panna Momaya, the blood reports confirmed drug consumption. "They were driving the car after smoking marijuana," she said.
CCTV footage showed the car speeding before taking a sharp turn and hitting the two-wheeler. In the moments before the crash, Chaurasia was seen behaving erratically, shouting "another round, another round," followed by chanting “Om Namah Shivay” and calling out a girl’s name, “Nikita.”
Later, Chaurasia told reporters that a pothole caused the accident and claimed he was driving at 50 km/hr. He also said the airbag deployment had obstructed his view.
