Sexual harassment on women: Businessman in police custody
Mangaluru, September 23: Local police arrested a businessman on charges of sexually harassing women and video recording here on Sunday.
The arrested is identified as Shashiraj (45), hailed from Kerala and settled in the city. He has been developing friendship with the innocent women and taking them to his apartment, and using them sexually. He was also video recording the sexual activities. A social activist who got the information about his acts, trapped him and
handed him over to Barke police.
The social activist said that a few days ago, a woman came to her and gave her a chip saying that “this person is using the women sexually and hand over him to the police”. She also gave his mobile number.
Using his mobile number, she called him and trapped him.
Earlier, the accused was kept in the Kadri police station. Later, he was shifted to Barke police station as the place where the incident happened is coming under its limitation. The police said that further action would be taken against him after investigation.
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Online fraud: Hotel chef from Udupi cheated of over Rs 1 lakh by WhatsApp contact
Udupi: Udupi City Police have registered a case of online fraud after a 62-year-old hotel chef was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.13 lakh by a woman who befriended him on WhatsApp, claiming to be based in London.
The victim, identified as Pandu Kariappa Poojary, a resident of Kuthpadi in Udupi, was working at a hotel in Mangaluru.
He reportedly came into contact with a woman identifying herself as Emilda William on WhatsApp. During their interactions, she told Poojary that she planned to start a cosmetics and hotel business in India and would meet him during a visit to Mangaluru.
On April 7, Emilda sent Poojary a flight ticket from London to Delhi via WhatsApp. The following day, Poojary received a phone call from a woman who informed him that Emilda had arrived at Delhi airport carrying a demand draft worth Rs 5 crore along with other items. The caller allegedly asked him to pay Rs 70,000.
Subsequently, Poojary also received a call from Emilda, who was reportedly crying and spoke about the situation. Believing the claims, he transferred a total of Rs 1,13,300 in phases using a scanner. He later realised that he had been cheated.
