Assembly poll witnesses many incidents
Bengaluru, May 11: Despite losing a family member, the grief-striking family members reached the polling station and exercised their votes at Naganur in Surapura taluk of Yadgiri district on Saturday and this attracted appreciation from all corners. A family member was died at the house of Somanna of the village. But the family members did not forget their duty of exercising their votes in spite of the situation they were in.
First vote from Halumata
With a belief that casting votes from Halumata (Kuruba) community is a good omen, voters from Kuruba community were allowed to cast their votes in most of the polling stations in Vijayapura district on Saturday. After Kuruba community people exercised their votes, others cast their votes.
From hospital to polling station
A patient Shivaram who was discharged from the hospital, directly went to a polling station and cast his vote. As soon as discharged from KS Hegde Medical College Hospital, Shivaram went to polling station 97 at Boliyar in Mangaluru and exercised his vote.
Dies after voting
Thimme Gowda died soon after he reached his home after casting his vote at Vaddarahalli in Mandya district on Saturday. It is said that Thimme Gowda (55) was suffering from ill-health for some time. In spite of it, he came to polling station and exercised his vote. But soon after he reached his home, he died.
Transgenders cast votes
For the first time, transgenders exercised their votes in the polling stations at Bengaluru CR Raman Nagar constituency and Mangaluru in Dakshina Kannada district.
Grandson misleads grandma
Though grandmother asked her grandson to vote for palm symbol (Congress), her grandson who accompanied her to help, cast her vote to JDS and it has gone viral in social media triggering a debate.
Photos go viral
Despite a ban on taking photos inside polling stations, the photos of voters who cast their votes to Congress, BJP and JDS candidates went viral in social media and created for and against debates. The voters who exercised their votes for their candidates took photos from mobile phones by overlooking the polling officers and uploaded in facebook and whatsapp groups.
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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.
