Mangaluru: Extortion, threatening of Kerala businessman; one held
Mangaluru, Apr 23: A 33-year-old man has been arrested here on the charges of threatening a Kerala-based businessman and extorting money from him, police said on Friday.
The arrested person has been identified as Divya Darshan, city police commissioner N Shashi Kumar told reporters.
The businessman Haneef, who was in Dubai, came here on a business trip to secure a licence for bauxite mining.
He got in touch with the accused who claimed he had high- profile contacts and took money from him.
The accused then called Haneef to a flat in the city and kept him confined there for two months, saying he had a threat to his life.
Later, Darshan and his associates demanded Rs 30 lakh and Rs 55 lakh from him on two occasions.
Based on a complaint from Haneef, the accused was arrested.
His associates would be traced and arrested soon, the Commissioner said.
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Count of voters in Gujarat drops by 73.73 lakh to 4.34 crore post-SIR
Ahmedabad (PTI): The names of nearly 74 lakh voters have been dropped from Gujarat's draft electoral rolls after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, pegging the total count of electors at 4.34 crore as against the 5.08 crore earlier, an official said on Friday.
The draft electoral rolls were published here by the Election Commission on Friday.
A total of 73.73 lakh voters were omitted from the electoral rolls after the exercise initiated by the EC to clean the rolls, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Hareet Shukla said.
"Before the publication of the draft electoral rolls, a total of 5,08,43,436 voters were registered in the state. After the publication of these rolls, the number of voters is now 4,34,70,109," he said.
"During the SIR campaign, the names of a total of 73,73,327 voters have been removed from the draft electoral roll," Shukla said.
The names of voters in following categories were deleted in the draft electoral rolls -- deceased voters (18,07,278), absent voters (9,69,662), voters who have permanently migrated (40,25,553), voters registered in two places (3,81,470) and others (1,89,364), a release from CEO office said.
The SIR exercise began in Gujarat on November 4 and ended on December 14.
After the publication of draft rolls, objections and claims regarding them can be submitted to authorities till January 18, the EC earlier said.
