Anekal: In a shocking incident, a man made an unsuccessful attempt to kill his girlfriend by assaulting her brutally in Harohalli police station limits of Ramanagar district.

The victim has been identified as 35-year-old Jayalaxmi, a resident of Manchinahalli near Attebele in Anekal. Whereas Attebele’s Vaderahalli resident Muniraju (28) is accused.

The duo, who was in love for past 10 years, was working at a private factory in the industrial estate of Attebele.

According to police; Muniraju, as per his plot, took Jayalaxmi in his Omini van towards forest area from Tattekeri. But he was unaware that a village Kanivedoddi is there near the forest. When Muniraju stopped his car in the forest and started beating Jayalaxmi, a bike-rider coming from Kanivedoddi observed it. After seeing the bike-rider, Muniraju thrown off Jayalxmi from the van and escaped.  

Later forest staff and cops approached the spot and rescued Jayalaxmi. She has been hospitalized and out of danger.

Harohalli police are searching for Muniraju who is absconding.

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Kolkata (PTI): Seven people were arrested from the Parnashree area in the southern part of the city for allegedly running a fake call centre, a police officer said on Saturday.

Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house on Netaji Subhas Road on Friday night and found the fake call centre operating from the ground floor, he said.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had set up a bogus company using forged documents and posed as employees of an antivirus firm to call citizens in the US, the officer said.

"The callers would gain the trust of victims and then use remote access to take control of their phones or other digital devices. The accused allegedly siphoned off large sums of money, running into millions of dollars, from victims' accounts," he said.

Five laptops, two WiFi routers, six mobile phones and four headsets were seized from the accused, he said, adding that the seven are being questioned to ascertain the full extent of the racket and to identify others involved.