Gauri murder case accused one of two Kalburgi killers?
Bengaluru, June 07: A 37-year-old Pune man currently under investigation for his suspected links to the Gauri Lankesh murder was allegedly one of the two men who knocked on the doors of scholar MM Kalburgi’s residence in Dharwad before they gunned him down on August 30, 2015, reports timesofidia.indiatimes.com.
Two unidentified men had gone to Kalburgi’s Kalyan Nagar residence. The visitors struck up a conversation with the scholar and his wife Umadevi went inside as she thought they were his students. The visitors fled after one of them shot Kalburgi dead. One of the visitors is suspected to be Amol Kale, the Pune man, now being questioned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gauri killing.
“A close family member of Kalburgi has identified Kale as one of the visitors. However, we need more evidence to establish the claim. We’ll soon contact sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) which did the initial investigation into the Kalburgi killing.” SIT sources said TOI.
Kale is a realtor and lives with his widowed mother and wife in Akshay Plaza Apartments at Manek Colony, Chinchwad near Pune. Kale, Manohar Yadave (from Vijayapura), Amit Degvekar (from Sindhudurg, Maharashtra) and Sujit Kumar alias Praveen from Mangaluru were first arrested for conspiring to kill Mysuru rationalist KS Bhagawan. The SIT took them into custody after it emerged that they had links with the Gauri killing too.
Kale’s absconding accomplice, Nihal alias Dada, is a suspected to have played a significant role in the Gauri murder, SIT sources said. We have launched a manhunt for him,” sources said TOI.
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Online fraud: Hotel chef from Udupi cheated of over Rs 1 lakh by WhatsApp contact
Udupi: Udupi City Police have registered a case of online fraud after a 62-year-old hotel chef was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.13 lakh by a woman who befriended him on WhatsApp, claiming to be based in London.
The victim, identified as Pandu Kariappa Poojary, a resident of Kuthpadi in Udupi, was working at a hotel in Mangaluru.
He reportedly came into contact with a woman identifying herself as Emilda William on WhatsApp. During their interactions, she told Poojary that she planned to start a cosmetics and hotel business in India and would meet him during a visit to Mangaluru.
On April 7, Emilda sent Poojary a flight ticket from London to Delhi via WhatsApp. The following day, Poojary received a phone call from a woman who informed him that Emilda had arrived at Delhi airport carrying a demand draft worth Rs 5 crore along with other items. The caller allegedly asked him to pay Rs 70,000.
Subsequently, Poojary also received a call from Emilda, who was reportedly crying and spoke about the situation. Believing the claims, he transferred a total of Rs 1,13,300 in phases using a scanner. He later realised that he had been cheated.
