Udupi: Woman duped of Rs 6 lakh in 'digital arrest' cyber fraud
Udupi: A woman identified as Liolla from Udupi was conned out of ₹6 lakh by fraudsters posing as Mumbai Cyber Police, using a fake “digital arrest” threat to extort money.
According to the complaint lodged with the Udupi CEN (Cyber Economic and Narcotics) Police Station, the incident began on July 22 when she received a phone call around 11:30 AM claiming to be from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The caller falsely informed her that multiple complaints had been filed against her SIM card for harassment and false advertisements, and said the case would be transferred to Mumbai Cyber Police.
Later, at 12:15 PM the same day, she received a WhatsApp video call where a person dressed in a police uniform appeared. The fraudster claimed that her Aadhaar card was linked to the Naresh Goyal money laundering case and that a warrant had been issued for her arrest. She was then told she was under “digital arrest.”
Later on July 25, the scammers pressured her into transferring ₹2 lakh and ₹4 lakh to two different bank accounts. In total, ₹6 lakh was siphoned off.
Following which, Liolla filed a formal complaint with the Udupi CEN police.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
