3 killed rain-related incidents in Karnataka
Chikamagaluru (PTI): Three people, including two women from the same family were killed in two separate rain-related incidents in the district in the last 24 hours, police said on Wednesday.
The two women were inside their house when it collapsed after a tree fell on it triggered by heavy rains on Tuesday night at Thagalur village in Mudigere Taluk.
"Our sub-inspector along with a posse of policemen has gone to the house. One woman died instantaneously, while the other succumbed to her injuries in the hospital. The district authorities are working on giving relief amount at the earliest," a police officer told the PTI.
Two children who were asleep in the house during the incident had a miraculous escape, the officer added.
In another incident, a 50-year-old man from Gadag was swept away in his car while crossing a swollen stream at Sathkoli in Narasimharajapura Taluk, police said. Many rivers in Karnataka are in spate following heavy downpour in several parts of the state, especially in Malnad and coastal regions.
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Bad timing: Fraudsters call senior Indore cop during press briefing to pull off 'digital arrest'
Indore, Nov 24: Some online fraudsters got their target and timing horribly wrong on Sunday after they attempted to "digitally arrest" a senior police official with an automated call over "credit card misuse" while he was addressing a press conference in Indore in Madhya Pradesh.
"The caller informed that I had misused my credit card and as a result a case had been registered with Andheri West police station in Mumbai. I was having a press briefing at the time. I was told my bank account would be blocked and was asked to visit the police station in two hours," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) of Indore crime branch Rajesh Dandotia told PTI.
The official said he told the caller he would not be able to make it to Mumbai from Indore at such short notice.
"The caller told me he would be connect me to someone from the police station. He then connected me to another person, who asked me to wait. He said he would talk to his senior officer to see if my statement could be recorded via video call. When he saw me in police uniform, he immediately disconnected the video call," the official narrated.
Dandotia said he asked media persons to record a video so that people can be made aware of such cyber crimes and digital arrest.
Digital arrest is a modus operandi of cyber criminals who threaten a person with arrest, force the person to remain confined in a room while keeping him or her under electronic surveillance and then extort money on the pretext of "clearing" him or her of charges.
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