Mangaluru, October 03: Urwa police on Tuesday arrested two persons in Bengaluru on charges of blackmailing people by getting their photos after introducing themselves as a woman in Facebook and swindling money from them.
The arrested are identified as Aditya alias Ashwini (19) of Subedarpalya near Yeshwanthpur and Arun H.S (27) of Basaveshwara Nagar in Kanakapura. They were brought to Mangaluru. The accused introduced themselves as Aradhya of Bengaluru to a Mangaluru person. Later, they got a photo from the complainant, threatened him of sending him to jail by producing the photo to the police and blackmailed him for Rs 65,000. After this, they were calling him and demanding for more money. When the case was under investigation, the accused used to call the complainant in the name of senior police officers and politicians and threatening him.
Based on the complaint, the Urwa police arrested the accused near Columbia Hospital in Bengaluru. The police said that the accused have been blackmailing the complainant in the name of Aradhya. Urwa police station inspector Ravish Nayak and staff conducted the operation under the guidance of Commissioner T.R Suresh, DCP Uma Prashanth and Central Sub-Division ACP Uday Nayak.
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New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI): The iconic Taj Mahal in Agra earned the "highest income" through the sale of tickets among the ASI-protected monuments from FY19-20 to FY23-24, according to data shared by the government.
Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat shared the data in a written response to a query in Rajya Sabha.
He was asked the amount that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has received from selling entry tickets to various monuments in the last five years, year-wise and monument-wise; and the monuments that have received the highest income through selling entry tickets in the last five years.
In his response, the minister shared the data in a tabular form for cycles of financial years ranging from FY19-20 to FY23-24.
According to the data, Taj Mahal earned the top slot for all five years.
The Mughal-era architectural wonder was commissioned by Emperor Shah Jehan in the 17th century and it is considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.
In FY19-20, the Agra Fort in Agra and Qutub Minar in Delhi were in the second and third positions.
In FY20-21, the Group of Monuments Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu and Sun Temple, Konark were in the second and third positions. In FY23-24, Qutub Minar and Red Fort of Delhi were in the second and third positions.