Sex assault on mentally impaired girls: 5 held
Mangaluru: Police have arrested five persons including Aban (30) who allegedly sexually assaulted three mentally impaired minor girls for two years.
Three sisters aged 16, 17, and 18, from Udayagiri police limits, were sexually abused in different places. The crime was exposed with the initiative of Odanadi Seva—a Mysuru-based NGO.
According to the NGO, all the three girls who belonged to an economically backward family were pushed into prostitution.
The arrested took them to Bengaluru, Mangaluru, and Mandya and sexually abused the girls. Following a complaint from their family members, police tracked down the victims and brought them to Odanadi Samsthe for counseling. During the counseling session, the girls provided details of the abusers.
According to police, one of the victims was asked to call the mastermind from Mangaluru. When he reached the city to meet her, Mangaluru City police arrested him.
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7 held for running fake call centre in South Kolkata
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.
