Udupi intra-gang war: Three more arrested
Udupi (Karnataka), May 26: The police on Sunday arrested three more persons in connection with the intra-gang war that took place in the early hours of May 19 at Kunjibettu in Udupi town police limits here.
The total number of arrested persons is now six.
The persons arrested on Sunday have been identified as Majid, Alfaz and Shariff. All three are stated to be the members of 'Garuda gang', police said.
Earlier, on May 24, the police had arrested three persons identified as Ashiq, Raquib and Saqlain of the same gang.
Sheriff, who was run over by the car driven by his rivals, was treated at the local hospital and discharged.
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He is now in the custody of the Udupi Town police.
CCTV footage of the incident showed a white car reversing and ramming a grey vehicle before speeding away, while one person brandishing a sword is seen running behind it. The white car then knocks him down leaving him injured.
The members tried to attack each other with weapons allegedly to 'settle' a real estate dispute, police said.
After the video of the street fight went viral, the police swung into action and made arrests. The police also confiscated sharp weapons including knives and two cars.
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3 officials of private banks arrested in Gujarat in Rs 2,500 crore cyber fraud; 20 held so far
Rajkot (PTI): Three officials of leading private banks were arrested for their alleged involvement in a Rs 2,500-crore cyber fraud racket in Gujarat's Rajkot district, bringing the number of those held so far in the case to 20, police said on Monday.
Those arrested were identified as Maulik Kamani, a personal manager at Yes Bank in Padadhari; Kalpesh Dangariya, a manager at Axis Bank in Jamnagar; and Anurag Baldha, a personal banker with HDFC Bank, Rajkot (Rural) Superintendent of Police Vijay Gurjar said.
Dangariya and Baldha were previously employed with Yes Bank, he added.
Kamani allegedly assisted the earlier arrested accused in opening and managing suspicious accounts. He also helped bypass banking alerts triggered by high-value transactions by submitting additional documentation to keep accounts active, the SP said.
Kamani was allegedly involved in cash withdrawals that were later routed through hawala channels (illegal money transfer system), supported by digital evidence recovered from his mobile device, he added.
Dangariya is accused of facilitating the opening of fraudulent accounts using fake or misrepresented identities, police said.
He also assisted in structuring documentation, including Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC)-related papers, to prevent transactions from being flagged as suspicious, they said.
On the other hand, Baldha opened new accounts after verification and certification processes as part of the racket, Gurjar informed.
All the three accused are in police custody, while others are in jail under judicial remand, SP said.
So far, police have identified 85 bank accounts linked to the racket with 535 complaints filed on the cyber crime portal.
The total transaction linked to the cyber fraud exceeds Rs 2,500 crore, police said.
The earlier fraud amount was pegged by police at Rs 1,500 crore.
