Gauri murder case: Seventh accused arrested from Sullia
Bengaluru: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has arrested a resident of Sullia taluk’s Sampaje in D.K district in the murder case of senior journalist Gauri Lankesh.
The arrested has been identified as 30-year-old Mohan Nayak. He was arrested from Dakshina Kannada district two days ago. Mohan Nayak was produced in a Bengaluru court on Thursday evening and remanded to 14 days SIT custody.
SIT investigation officer MN Anucheth has informed that Mohan who was arrested from D.K district is suspected to have handed over the 7.65mm gun to the alleged killer of Gauri Lankesh hours before the crime and rode the bike with suspected shooter Parashuram Waghmore.
Mohan was known for supplying home-made medicines in Kushal Nagar near Madikeri. It has been reported that people often come by car to meet him. But locals thought that people might be coming for medicines. According to reports, he was frequently telling people that he is going to Bengaluru.
The SIT sleuths from Bengaluru picked up Moahn Nayak from Mundadka in Sampaje at around 2 am on July 19.
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Three company directors held in Rs 100-crore investment fraud in Kochi
Kochi (Kerala) (PTI): Police on Sunday arrested three directors of a firm accused of cheating hundreds of investors of over Rs 100 crore through a fake investment scheme linked to agricultural tourism here, officials said.
The accused were identified as Muraleedharan, Ashik Murali and Akhil Murali, all natives of Thrissur.
The arrests were made by the Kalamassery police in connection with a fraud involving ATCOS (Agri Tourism Cooperative Society), a firm headquartered at Pathadipalam here.
Police said the company had promised high returns by collecting investments from the public in the agricultural tourism sector, but allegedly cheated hundreds of people and fled with the money.
ATCOS was registered under the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act and operated 13 branches across various districts in Kerala, besides a branch in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, officials said.
When investors failed to receive their promised returns or the invested amount, complaints were filed with the police.
Officials said around 54 cases have been registered against the firm in 32 police stations across the state, including 29 cases at the Kalamassery police station alone.
Following instructions from Kochi City Police Commissioner K S Mahesh Kumar, a special investigation team was formed under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shehensha and Thrikkakara ACP Manoj Kumar.
The team traced the accused to an apartment in Amala Nagar in Thrissur, where they had been hiding after secretly renting the flat, officials said.
The bank accounts of the accused have been frozen, and steps have been initiated to trace their assets, officials said.
Police also conducted a raid at the company’s office at Pathadipalam and seized several documents related to the case.
The accused were produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Kalamassery, which remanded them to judicial custody and sent them to Kakkanad jail.
Police said they would seek the custody of the accused for further interrogation as the investigation continues.
