Mangaluru: Cop suspended for harassing woman complainant
Mangaluru (PTI): A head constable attached to the Kavoor police station here has been suspended for allegedly mentally harassing a woman who approached the station to lodge a complaint, police sources said.
City police commissioner Anupam Agarwal issued the suspension order based on the woman's complaint that the head constable, Santhosh, had threatened and sent abusive messages to her mobile phone.
It is alleged that the policeman had secured the mobile number of the woman when she came to the station and later used to torture her by sending abusive messages.
He also allegedly threatened her with life if she lodges a complaint against him.
Unable to bear the torture, the woman had filed a complaint with the city police commissioner.
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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.
