Mangaluru: 35-year-old man loses Rs 32 lakh in online investment fraud
Mangaluru: A 35-year-old man from Mangaluru has reported losing a total of Rs 32,06,880 to a cyber fraudster who posed as an online trading agent after befriending him on Facebook. The victim filed a police complaint, detailing how he was deceived over a span of several weeks.
According to the complaint, the man received a friend request on Facebook from a woman named Kavya Shetty on September 10. After accepting the request, the two began chatting, and Shetty introduced herself as a professional involved in trading operations in Mumbai. She convinced the complainant that he could earn significant profits by participating in online trading, as reported by Deccan Herald on Tuesday.
Subsequently, Shetty sent the victim a WhatsApp message with a link to a website, h5.capdynglobal.org, urging him to register. Upon clicking the link, the complainant was redirected to a trading platform called Capdyn Global, where he created an account by providing his personal details, including his name and email address.
Encouraged by an initial profit of Rs 9,504 from a Rs 40,000 investment, the victim continued to invest larger amounts. He made another deposit of Rs 2 lakh, which yielded a return of Rs 23,760, the report added.
Confident that the platform was legitimate, he proceeded to transfer substantial sums of money between September 13 and October 24. These transactions were made using UPI, IMPS, and RTGS methods, and were directed to various bank accounts provided by Shetty.
However, after transferring a total of Rs 32,06,880, the victim became suspicious and eventually realised that he had been duped.
A case has been registered at CEN police station.
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Screenwriter Salim Khan on ventilator support and stable, say doctors
Mumbai (PTI): Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan suffered a brain haemorrhage which has been tackled, is on ventilator support as a safeguard and stable, doctors treating him said on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital here.
The 90-year-old, one half of the celebrated Salim-Javed duo which scripted films such as "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don" with Javed Akhtar, is in the ICU and recovery might take some time given his age.
"His blood pressure was high for which we treated him and we had to put him on a ventilator because we wanted to do certain investigations. Now the ventilator was put as a safeguard so that his situation doesn't get worse. So it is not that he is critical," Dr Jalil Parkar told reporters.
"We did the investigations that were required and today we have done a small procedure on him, I will not go into the details. The procedure done is called DSA (digital subtraction angiography). The procedure has been accomplished, he is fine and stable and shifted back to ICU. By tomorrow, we hope to get him off the ventilator. All in all, he is doing quite well," he added.
Asked whether he suffered a brain haemorrhage, the doctor said, "Unko thoda haemorrhage hua tha, which we’ve tackled. No surgery is required.
As concern over Khan's health mounted, his children, including superstar Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan, daughter Alvira, and sons-in-law Atul Agnihotri and Aayush Sharma, have been seen outside the hospital along with other well-wishers. His long-time partner Akhtar was also seen coming out of the hospital.
Khan, a household name in the 70s and 80s, turned 90 on November 24 last year. It was the day Dharmendra, the star of many of his films, including "Sholay", "Seeta aur Geeta" and "Yaadon Ki Baraat", passed away.
Hailing from an affluent family in Indore, Khan arrived in Mumbai in his 20s with dreams of stardom. He was good looking and confident he would make a mark in the industry as an actor. But that did not happen. And then, after struggling for close to a decade and getting confined to small roles in films, he changed lanes.
He worked as an assistant to Abrar Alvi and soon met Akhtar to form one of Hindi cinema's most formidable writing partnerships. They worked together on two dozen movies with most of them achieving blockbuster status.
Other than "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don", Khan and Akhtar also penned "Trishul", "Zanjeer", "Seeta Aur Geeta", "Haathi Mere Saathi", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" and "Mr India".
