Mumtaz Ali death case: Three more accused taken into police custody
Kavoor: In connection with the businessman Mumtaz Ali death case, three more accused were produced before the court on Thursday by the police.
The Kavoor police presented the alleged mastermind and A2 accused, Abdul Sattar, a resident of Krishnapura, along with A3 accused Muhammad Mustafa, and the 4th accused, Shafi, a resident of Nandavar in Bantwal Taluk, before the court. The police have been granted seven days of custody for further investigation.
These three accused were initially detained by the CCB police on October 9 and later handed over to the Kavoor police.
In the same case, on October 8, the police had arrested A1 accused Rehmat and the 5th accused, her husband Shuhaib, and presented them before the court. The Kavoor police had taken them into custody for further interrogation.
On October 6, Mumtaz Ali's brother Haider Ali lodged a complaint, alleging that Rehmat, along with five others, had blackmailed his brother for money, leading to his suicide by jumping into the river. Based on this complaint, the police registered a case under BNS sections 308(2), 308(5), 352, 351(2) and 190, and launched an investigation.
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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.
