Bengaluru: Lecturer attempts suicide in classroom, alleges harassment by Principal
Bengaluru: A 44-year-old English lecturer, identified as Shabana, attempted suicide by consuming tablets in the classroom of a private PU college in Tilak Nagar on Monday.
Reports suggest that Shabana, distressed by alleged harassment from the college principal, took this drastic step. Earlier that morning, she had visited the principal's office for a conversation before returning to her classroom, where the incident occurred.
She was immediately rushed to a nearby private hospital and is now out of danger, according to DCP (Southeast) Sarah Fatima.
Tilak Nagar police visited the college and are conducting an investigation based on hospital information. A case has been registered.
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Chief accountant arrested near Nanjangud for embezzling Rs 2.5 crore from Dubai hotel
Mysuru: The Udupi police have arrested a 31-year-old Indian expatriate, Nagesh Poojary, who is accused of embezzling Rs 2.5 crore from a hotel owned by Dubai's Fortune Group while serving as the chief accountant.
Poojary, a resident of Barkur in Udupi district, reportedly siphoned off the funds in a phased manner. After initially securing bail from a judicial magistrate first class court, he went absconding following the cancellation of his bail by both the district sessions court and the Karnataka High Court.
Police arrested him near Nanjangud in the Mysuru district. Poojary was subsequently presented before a court, which has remanded him in police custody for three days, until October 16, for further investigation.
Poojary joined the Dubai-based Fortune Group of Hotels, managed by Kundapur hotelier Varkady Praveen Kumar Shetty, as an accountant and was promoted to chief accountant in 2022. In 2023, he returned to India for his wedding on a three-month leave, which he later extended. After his request for an additional 15 days was denied, he resigned via email.
During a review of the hotel’s financial records, the management discovered a shortage of Rs 2.55 crore, which Poojary had allegedly embezzled by creating false entries in the accounts to cover up his cash transactions. Following the cancellation of his bail, he evaded authorities.
The government recently appointed Shivaprasad Alva, a senior law officer from Mangaluru, as the special public prosecutor to handle the case.
