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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ED raids Kolkata Police deputy commissioner, businessman in PMLA probe
Kolkata (PTI): The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday conducted raids at the premises of Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner Shantanu Sinha Biswas and a local businessman as part of a money laundering probe against an alleged criminal and his linked syndicate in the poll-bound state, officials said.
Two premises of Biswas, including his residence in Ballygunge area and one location of the businessman named Joy Kamdar, Managing Director of a company named Sun Enterprise, have been raided under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Kamdar has been taken by the officials to the local ED office for questioning. Biswas, chief coordinator and nodal officer of the West Bengal and Kolkata Police welfare committee, was not present at his premises, they said.
The action is linked to a money laundering case against an alleged local criminal named Biswajit Podder alias Sona Pappu, who is booked in multiple cases on charges of attempted murder and extortion.
The federal probe agency had conducted the first round of searches in this case on April 1.
The ED had then seized cash of Rs 1.47 crore apart from gold jewellery and silver valued at Rs 67.64 lakh and a country-made revolver from some premises that were searched.
The probe stems from a Kolkata Police FIR against against Podder for his alleged involvement in rioting, attempt to murder, criminal conspiracy and Arms Act violations. The accused, including Podder, were engaged in organised criminal syndicate activities in the state of West Bengal and generated funds illegally by way of syndicate operations, the ED said in a statement on April 9.
Podder is also wanted by the police in a case of violence in Kankulia road near Golpark of Kolkata and is currently on the run.
The ED has issued summons to Podder but he has failed to join the investigation so far, according to the agency.
West Bengal will have a two phase poll on April 23 and April 29.
