Okkettur : Pillion rider killed in road accident
Bantwal, May 20: A pillion rider of a two wheeler was crushed to death under wheels of a bus at Okkettur on Vittla-Mangaluru road on Sunday. The deceased is identified as Mohammed Afrid (18), son of Kunhi Monu of Okketturu near Vittla. Afrid was working a jewellery shop at Vittla. The incident happened when Afrid was going towards Vittla on his friend’s bike in the morning.
When the motorbike they were travelling rammed to a jeep in the cross of Okkettur bridge, Afrid fell down on the road. At this moment, a private bus which came from Vittla ran over him killing him on the spot. However, the bike rider escaped unhurt. Vittla police who visited the spot registered a case.
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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.
