Puttur: A 45-year-old woman, Eshwari, from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu has been arrested by the Puttur Town Police in a case of theft of gold jewelry in town about one and a half months ago and jewelry worth approximately Rs 6 lakh has been confiscated by the police.
A complaint had been filed with the Town Police that gold jewelry had been stolen from the bag of Reshma N at the KSRTC Bus Stand in Puttur town on February 12. The police team investigating the case, which was found to be one of interstate theft of jewelry, have now arrested Eshwari and seized the jewelry from her.
Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Rishyant CB and Additional SP Dharmappa MN guided the team for the investigation of the interstate crime. Further, Puttur Sub-division Deputy SP Arun Nagegowda directed the police team, which was led by Puttur Town Station Inspector Satish JJ and included Puttur Town Sub-inspectors Nandakumar MM and Subrahmanya H as well as Head Constables Zacharia MA, K Basavaraj, Jagadish and Subrahmanya, constables Vinayak S Barki and Sharanappa Patil, woman constable Revathi and Dakshina Kannada District Computer Division staff members C Sampath and CPC Diwakar.
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Noida (PTI): A woman was duped of Rs 34 lakh here in a case of "digital arrest" by cyber criminals who threatened her with fake notices by the Enforcement Directorate, officials said on Sunday
The fraudsters claimed that a parcel is being sent from Mumbai to Iran in her name containing five passports, two debit cards, two laptops, 900 US dollars and 200 grams of narcotics, they said.
The victim received a call form the fraudsters on around 10 pm on August 8, she said in her complaint.
The Gautam Buddha cyber crime police station has registered a case and started investigation in the matter, Inspector-in-charge Vijay Kumar Gautam said.
According to the complaint of Nidhi Paliwal, a resident of Sector-41, the fraudsters sent her a complaint via WhatsApp and asked her to send Rs 34 lakh.
An accused also video called her on Skype with the video switched off, Paliwal said in her complaint.
Inspector Gautam said the accused also sent two notices of Enforcement Directorate (ED), in which serious allegations were made against the victim. A probe on the matter is underway, he said.