Puttur: Cop society president, secretary arrested
Cheated customers after collecting deposits worth lakhs
Puttur, May 18: Town police have arrested Sharmahan Multi-purpose Cooperative Society president Girish Kumar and secretary Keshav on charges of cheating the customers worth lakhs after collecting deposits from them.
Based on a complaint lodged by Srisha Keshava of Yeyyadi in Mangaluru, the police have arrested the accused and investigating the issue. Srisha Keshav has deposited Rs 79 lakh from 2016 in the society. Of which, the term of the deposit was over for Rs 50 lakh. In spite of several requests for withdrawal, the society did not respond positively, he alleged.
The accused were produced before the court which handed them over to the judicial custody. This society is also functioning at Vittla and BC Road. Police sources said that the accused could be taken for police custody for interrogation.
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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.
