Overseas job visa fraud case: Mangaluru police to invoke KCOCA against accused
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Mangaluru: The Mangaluru City Police have decided to invoke Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act (KCOCA) against the key accused arrested in overseas job visa fraud in Mangaluru, who allegedly defrauded over 300 job aspirants of more than Rs 4 crore.
City Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH stated that the Mangaluru City Crime Branch (CCB) has arrested the main accused involved in the fraud. The accused have existing cases registered against them at police stations in Mangaluru North and Navi Mumbai.
The police have reportedly submitted a request to the court to invoke the KCOCA in this matter.
The CCB has arrested three individuals linked to the fraudulent operation under the name Hireglow Elegant Overseas International (OPC) Private Limited, which was set up at Bendoorwell in Mangaluru. Those arrested include Masiulla Atiulla Khan from Mumbai, Dil Shaad Abdul Sathar Khan from Navi Mumbai, and Sahukari Kishore Kumar alias Anil Patel from Dombivli, Thane.
The accused reportedly lured job seekers through newspaper advertisements and false promises of overseas employment. After collecting large sums of money for visas and placement services, they failed to deliver on their promises, leaving hundreds of victims defrauded.
Under the KCOCA, the police have special powers and it will be difficult for the accused to get bail from the court. “KCOCA can be invoked against those who have two or more cases against them. This serves as a warning to habitual offenders," the Commissioner stated.
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Rahul Gandhi has tea with 'dead' voters from Bihar, thanks EC for experience
New Delhi, Aug 13 (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he had a unique experience of having tea with some "dead" voters from Bihar and thanked the Election Commission for it.
A group of seven voters from Bihar met the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha at his residence and shared their experience of how they were declared "dead" by the EC and their names removed from the electoral rolls.
"There have been many interesting experiences in life, but I never got the chance to have tea with 'dead people'. For this unique experience, thank you Election Commission!" Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.
He also shared a video of his meeting with the "dead" voters. In it, Gandhi is heard telling them to move around and see Delhi as the "dead" cannot even be charged tickets.
In the video, some of them told Gandhi that they came to know that they were "declared dead" by the EC during the special intensive revision (SIR), and were among the 65 lakh voters whose names have been removed from the electoral rolls of poll-bound Bihar.
The group also told Gandhi that they appeared before the Supreme Court on Wednesday to get their voting rights back. The apex court is hearing petitions against the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar.
In a statement, the party later said that seven voters from Bihar, all very much alive, shared tea with Rahul Gandhi today, even as the Election Commission's SIR list had them as "dead".
Ramikbal Ray, Harendra Ray, Lalmuni Devi, Vachiya Devi, Lalwati Devi, Punam Kumari, and Munna Kumar all belong to Tejashwi Yadav's constituency, Raghopur.
"They have been removed from the electoral rolls despite having completed the requisite paperwork for the SIR.
"The Election Commission has not openly published lists of the people whom it has declared dead, migrated, etc. Our teams on the ground were able to identify these people only because they managed to informally get EC's internal report in two to three polling booths," the Congress said.
These seven represent only a fraction of "unjustly" deleted voters in two to three polling booths in the constituency, it added.
"This is not a clerical error — it is political disenfranchisement in plain sight.
"After 'Vote Chori' was exposed in Bengaluru, it is clear that the Bihar SIR exercise is also compromised. When the living are struck off as dead, the death certificate is issued to democracy itself," the Congress said.
