Swara Bhaskar congratulates Hijab-clad Karnataka student Bushra Mateen for winning 16 Gold medals
New Delhi: Bollywood actress Swara Bhaskar on Monday, congratulated a Karnataka student for creating history at the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) by bagging 16 gold medals. Bhaskar also said academic excellence and Hijab are not mutually exclusive.
Taking to her Twitter account, Swara quoted a tweet from another user who had captioned the student – Bushra Mateen’s image as “A Hijabi girl Bushra Mateen, tops VTU – Engineering University.
Swara wrote “Congratulations Bushra! Apparently academic excellence & achievement and #Hijab are not mutually exclusive! Do we need to be ‘liberated’ from our prejudices.”
Bushra Mateen, a student from SLN College of Engineering in Karnataka created history after bagging 16 gold medals from the universities for her academic accomplishments.
Congratulations Bushra! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽✨✨✨
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) March 6, 2022
Apparently academic excellence & achievement and #Hijab are not mutually exclusive! Do we need to be ‘liberated’ from our prejudices 🤔 https://t.co/sGWCC5UqhF
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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.
