'Grenade' found at Bengaluru railway station turned out to be dummy simulator used by Indian Army
Bengaluru: Three days after a hand grenade triggered panic among the passengers at the Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna Railway Station in the city, the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) of Railway Police has confirmed that the object was a simulator used in the Military training of Indian Army and was not explosive.
On Friday May 30, passengers in a train noticed the reported grenade in a suspicious box and informed the authorities causing panic among the passengers. The local police and bomb squad rushed to the spot and inspected the train. A part of the railway station was also cordoned off and movements of trains was also halted for nearly 2 hours.
"The simulator is used in training and is not an explosive. A box of grenade simulators was being transported to other parts of the country. The grenade could have fallen off during the journey. We have contacted army officials, seeking their report on the incident. They have accepted that it was their grenade simulator. We have to contact the person who was carrying the simulators in the railway station and will add his name in the FIR for negligence," Bheemashankar S Guled, Superintendent of Railways, Bengaluru told reporters at a press conference on Monday.
Exact details on how one such object fell out of the box are awaited.
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Interstate cyber-fraud racket busted in UP's Baghpat, 7 held
Baghpat (PTI): An interstate cyber-fraud racket involved in duping people on the pretext of providing bank jobs was busted by police in this Uttar Pradesh district on Sunday with the arrest of seven people, including two women, officials said.
Police said the accused were running a fake call centre and luring job seekers from several states by issuing forged appointment letters and fabricated agreements in the name of bank recruitment, collecting large sums of money in return.
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Twelve mobile phones, two laptops, two SIM cards on fake names, several forged appointment letters and agreements, 15 bank passbooks, two chequebooks, UPI QR codes, ATM cards and 11 other cards were seized from the possession of the accused, police said, adding that the data of around 6,450 people from different states was found stored in the laptops.
According to the officials, the gang misused information obtained from online platforms, such as OLX and job-related websites, to target unsuspecting victims.
The racket was uncovered following complaints received on the Union home ministry's "Pratibimb" portal and subsequent technical surveillance.
Investigations revealed at least 20 complaints from various states, including Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Assam and Meghalaya.
The arrested accused were identified as Mohit Kumar, Puneet Kumar, Vardaan, Anuj Kumar and Akshay, besides the two women.
They were arrested at around 11:30 am from under the Eastern Peripheral Expressway in the Kotwali Baghpat area.
A case has been registered at the cyber crime police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and section 66D of the Information Technology Act, police said.
