Dalit youth dies in Bengaluru police custody: Case Transferred CID
Bengaluru: Following the death of a Dalit youth under the custody of the Cottonpet Police, the case has been handed over to the CID.
The Cottonpet Police were to produce the arrested Vinod before court on Thursday. Vinod is learned to have lost consciousness in his cell on Thursday morning and died on the way to hospital.
DCP (West Division) Laxman Nimbargi, who spoke on the incident, said that an attempt to dacoity case had been registered at the Cottonpet Police Station against Vinod in 2017. The court had also granted a non-bailable warrant and on Wednesday evening, the police had arrested Vinod.
The officer added that the arrested had spent the night at the Cottonpet Police Station. The station staff tried to wake him up at around 3:45 am on Thursday, but Vinod did not wake up. The staff rushed him to hospital, where the doctors checked him and said that he had died, Nimbargi said.
“A custodial death has been registered. We have followed all the guidelines of a custodial case. The case has been transferred to the CID,” the DCP said.
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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.
