Rs 100 cr cheating case: 8 persons including son of former MLA held
Accused misused room of BSY for their business?
Bengaluru, February 13: The Central Zone police arrested eight persons including a son of former MLA on charge of cheating people by duping them to believe that they will get Rs 100 crore for cashew nut business here. Interestingly, police sources said that the accused had misused the office of Opposition Leader BS Yeddyurappa on the first floor of the Vidhana Soudha for their business.
The arrested have been identified as P Karthikeyan (60), son of former MLA Palaniyappa from Shivajinagar constituency in 1950, Manikantha Vasan (25), Suman (27), Abhilash (27), Karthik, Prabhu, Johnmoon and Sagavaroop and all of them hailed from Tamil Nadu, said DCP D Devaraj.
About incident
A person called Ramesh approached a lady Ilamadi to get Rs 100 crore loan for his cashew nut business. Later, she along with Ramesh, Sundaram Selvam, Ajay and her father KK Shetty promised him of getting loan at minimum interest rate. They held discussion at the first floor of the Vidhana Soudha on January 2 and asked him to pay 1.12 per cent amount on loan amount as stamp charge. Later, they got five stamp papers of Rs 100 face value, and five stamp papers of Rs 20 face value from him and got his signature on them. After some time, they managed to get five cheques and six photos along with Rs 1.12 crore from him and escaped to Tamil Nadu. Against this, a case was filed at Cubbon Park police station, Devaraj said.
Now the police who arrested the accused recovered Rs 40 lakh from them and handed it over to Ramesh and remaining Rs 72 lakh has to be recovered from the accused, investigation officers said.
BSY office misused?
It is said that in order to cheat a person, the accused have misused the office of former chief minister and Opposition Leader BS Yeddyurappa on the first floor of the Vidhana Soudha. On the day of their dealing, P Karthikeyan and others who entered the Vidhana Soudha, sat in an empty room in ministers get up. Moreover, they also introduced themselves with the Vidhana Soudha staff, revealed the investigation.
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300 students get free sanitary pads at menstrual health awareness programme in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: Around 300 students from government colleges and schools in Kavoor were given free sanitary pads during an awareness programme on menstrual health and hygiene held on Saturday.
The programme was organised by the Women Research Centre and the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) at the Government First Grade College (GFGC), Kavoor. The students hailed from Government First Grade college (GFGC), PU government college and high school, Deccan Herald reported.
Prameela Rao of Women Research Centre reportedly said, such awareness programme on menstrual health and free distribution of pads will be organised once in two months throughout the year. The entire cost of organising the awareness programmes and free distribution of pads had been sponsored by US based couple, Vinay Kumar and Dr Sowmya Rao, and a non-government organisation ‘Code Crimson'."
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Joint Director of the Department of Collegiate Education, Kavitha K R, who inaugurated the programme reportedly said, such initiatives should inspire students to give back to society in the future. As per the report, she highlighted the need for more women role models and encouraged students to break taboos surrounding menstruation.
According to the report, GFGC Principal Dr Geetha M L urged students to use biodegradable sanitary pads. Doctors Ankita Sarkar and Anuja Sarkar from Code Crimson addressed students on menstrual myths, hygiene practices, the importance of regular pad changes and safe disposal methods.
The speakers stressed that menstruation is a natural process and encouraged students to seek correct information without hesitation.
