Death toll in Yadgiri cylinder leak, fire tragedy rises to eleven
Yadgiri: Of the 20 people who sustained severe injuries in a fire incident induced by a cylinder leak earlier this week, eleven people have succumbed to the injury as of Friday afternoon.
The incident took place in Shahapur Taluk of Yadgir district. The injured were immediately taken to the nearest government hospital in the Taluk and were later moved to Kalburgi district hospital for further treatment.
Sanganagouda Lakashetty (55) is identified to be one among the deceased and has been reported to have died on Thursday here at a Solapur hospital.
Sources say that two have been booked on grounds of distributing cylinders with poisonous gases. The police are further investigating the case while the families of the victim have pressed for a judicial enquiry in the case.
Currently, the case is being investigated by Shahpur police and complaints have been registered against Vijay Gas Agency and Indane Gas Distributers under Sections 285, 337, 338, 304 A IPC.
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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.
