Man with razor tries to commit suicide in Karnataka HC room in the presence of Chief Justice
Bengaluru: In a dramatic incident that occurred at the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday, Chief Justice NV Anjaria, Justice HB Prabhakara Sastry, the advocates and the litigants were taken aback as a man who entered the court room started injuring himself with a razor and even held the blade to his throat.
Alarmed by the serious injuries the man inflicted upon himself, Chief Justice Anjaria ordered the personnel in the court room to immediately take him to a doctor. The security staff got the man out of the court room.
The man, who is being treated at Bowring Hospital, was identified as Shrinivas (51), a native of Mysuru. The reason for his action is yet to be investigated.
Justice Sastry, who would be retiring on Wednesday, questioned the efficiency of the security screening measures at the High Court, given that the man entered with a weapon in hand. He also ordered the people present in the room to stay away from blade, asking for a forensic expert to step in and inspect the weapon.
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The judges, asking everyone not to touch the file that the man had been carrying too, asked the concerned authorities to take custody of it. They also called the Registrar General and asked for information in the matter, expressing dissatisfaction on being informed that a court officer had briefly handled the case file. The judges pointed out that, without permission from the court, the court officer may not receive a file, especially when it is filed by an individual instead of an advocate.
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Bad timing: Fraudsters call senior Indore cop during press briefing to pull off 'digital arrest'
Indore, Nov 24: Some online fraudsters got their target and timing horribly wrong on Sunday after they attempted to "digitally arrest" a senior police official with an automated call over "credit card misuse" while he was addressing a press conference in Indore in Madhya Pradesh.
"The caller informed that I had misused my credit card and as a result a case had been registered with Andheri West police station in Mumbai. I was having a press briefing at the time. I was told my bank account would be blocked and was asked to visit the police station in two hours," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) of Indore crime branch Rajesh Dandotia told PTI.
The official said he told the caller he would not be able to make it to Mumbai from Indore at such short notice.
"The caller told me he would be connect me to someone from the police station. He then connected me to another person, who asked me to wait. He said he would talk to his senior officer to see if my statement could be recorded via video call. When he saw me in police uniform, he immediately disconnected the video call," the official narrated.
Dandotia said he asked media persons to record a video so that people can be made aware of such cyber crimes and digital arrest.
Digital arrest is a modus operandi of cyber criminals who threaten a person with arrest, force the person to remain confined in a room while keeping him or her under electronic surveillance and then extort money on the pretext of "clearing" him or her of charges.
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