Mangaluru: Youth kidnapped, assaulted and looted
Two accused held
Mangaluru, Dec 6: Pandeshwara police arrested two accused here on Thursday on charges of kidnapping a youth, assaulting and looting him near Sasihithlu. The arrested have been identified as Gautham and Laivegar.
The victim has been identified as Shimaq Hassan (22) of Falnir in the city. Shimaq is studying BBM in a college in the city. When the victim was having tea with his two of his friends Nashath and Sourav at a stall at Attavara on Dec 5, Shimaq classmate Ankith came in a bike and took Shimaq with him. As Shimaq did not return even after half an hour, his friends called Shimaq. Initially he did not receive the call and when they called him over other phone, the miscreants picked up the call and said that they were taking Shimaq to Moodabidri.
Later, the accused called his friends that they want Rs 50,000 and if not, they would not leave him. Some time later, they threatened that they would kill him. At this time, his friends contacted his family members and prepared to give Rs 25,000. After receiving the amount near KPT, the Miscreants dropped him and fled the scene.
Miscreants have assaulted Shimaq with iron rod and burnt him in cigeratte buts. He was treated at Wenlock hospital. The police have been searching for the remaining accused including Ankith.
Police also seized the swift car used for kidnapping him and iron rods. A case was registered at Pandeshwara police station.
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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.
