Moodbidri: Prime accused granted bail in overseas job fraud case
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Moodbidri: The Moodbidri Court has granted bail to the prime accused in a major job fraud case involving promises of overseas employment. The accused had allegedly duped several people from Moodbidri and other parts of Dakshina Kannada district of more than ₹1 crore under the pretext of arranging medical job visas abroad.
The court on Thursday granted bail to Prakruti U., 34, a resident of Bengaluru. Her alleged associate, Alton Rebello, 42, from Church Road, Gangolli in Kundapur, has been remanded to judicial custody after being produced before the court by the police.
According to police sources, the accused promised attractive job offers and employment visas abroad to several residents of the Kavoor police limits. Believing these claims, many people transferred large sums of money to the accused’s bank accounts. However, when the promised jobs failed to materialize, the victims approached the police and filed complaints.
In one such case, a resident of Kinnigoli alleged that the accused promised a medical employment visa in the Netherlands for his son. When the visa was not issued, the complainant’s relative, Kevin Pinto, demanded a refund. The accused, Prakruti, allegedly assured repayment within a week but failed to do so.
Subsequent investigations revealed that Prakruti and her associate had similarly cheated several others across the district, using the same modus operandi. Multiple victims from Moodbidri have registered complaints with the local police station.
Advocate Roopa Ballal, a young lawyer from Moodbidri, represented the accused Prakruti in court.
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Two arrested in K'taka for assaulting minors, uploading CSAM content
Bengaluru (PTI): Two men were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two minor girls, recording the acts on mobile phones and uploading the videos online as child sexual abuse material, police said on Thursday.
The accused have been identified as Kiran Kumar (29), hailing from Chitradurga district, and Aditya M K (20), hailing from Shivamogga district, they said.
A probe was initiated after information was received from the NCRP portal regarding a suspected instance of creation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) for online dissemination, police said.
Accordingly, a case was registered at Kaggalipura Police Station under relevant sections of the IT Act on May 10, they added.
Investigation revealed that two minor girl victims were exploited and videos were created and uploaded to the internet. The child victims have subsequently recorded their statements as per procedure and further necessary legal steps have been taken, Pronab Mohanty Director General of Police, Cyber Command, said in a statement.
Based on the statements of the victims, the accused persons, who allegedly assaulted the minors, recorded the acts on mobile phones and uploaded the videos online, were arrested, he said.
Following the probe, sections 65(2) (rape) and 70 (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant sections of the POCSO Act, have been added to the FIR, police said.
Officials collected relevant information and on May 12, arrested the accused persons and seized three mobile phones belonging to them, in which the videos had allegedly been recorded, he said.
The accused were later produced before the court and taken into police custody for further investigation, he added.
According to him, in CSAM cases, police usually apprehend offenders who have downloaded such content or have kept them in their possession after obtaining them from elsewhere, usually the internet.
"The present case is one of the very few instances where content creators and uploaders have been apprehended," Mohanty added.
