Vitla: Men posing as ED officers visit beedi company owner, dupe him of Rs 30 lakh
Vitla: A beedi company owner in Bantwal taluk was recently duped of Rs 30 lakh by a group of men claiming to be officers from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) who were conducting a raid on his house.
The group visited the house of Sulaiman Haji situated at Narsha near Bolanturu within the jurisdiction limits of Vitla Police Station late at night and declared before Sulaiman, who owns ‘Singaari Beedi’ company, that they were ED officers. Coming in a car with a Tamil Nadu registration, they were apparently paying a ‘surprise visit’.
Conducting a raid on the beedi company owner’s house for up to two hours, they are learned to have looted Rs 30 lakh kept in the house.
Vitla Police, who were informed of the incident, paid a visit to the house and held an inspection.
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8 dead, dozens wounded in Russian strike on Ukraine's Odesa port
Kyiv (AP): Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late on Friday, Ukraine's Emergency Service said on Saturday morning.
Some of the wounded were on a bus at the epicentre of the overnight strike, the service said in a Telegram post. Trucks caught fire in the parking lot, and cars were also damaged.
The port was struck with ballistic missiles, said Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odesa region.
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Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian warship and other facilities with drones, Ukraine's General Staff said in a statement on Saturday.
The nighttime attack on Friday hit the Russian warship “Okhotnik,” according to the statement posted to the Telegram messaging app.
The ship was patrolling in the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform. The extent of the damage is still being clarified, the statement added.
A drilling platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea was also hit. The facility is operated by Russian oil giant Lukoil. Ukrainian drones also struck a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
