Rs 100 cr cheating case: 8 persons including son of former MLA held
Accused misused room of BSY for their business?
Bengaluru, February 13: The Central Zone police arrested eight persons including a son of former MLA on charge of cheating people by duping them to believe that they will get Rs 100 crore for cashew nut business here. Interestingly, police sources said that the accused had misused the office of Opposition Leader BS Yeddyurappa on the first floor of the Vidhana Soudha for their business.
The arrested have been identified as P Karthikeyan (60), son of former MLA Palaniyappa from Shivajinagar constituency in 1950, Manikantha Vasan (25), Suman (27), Abhilash (27), Karthik, Prabhu, Johnmoon and Sagavaroop and all of them hailed from Tamil Nadu, said DCP D Devaraj.
About incident
A person called Ramesh approached a lady Ilamadi to get Rs 100 crore loan for his cashew nut business. Later, she along with Ramesh, Sundaram Selvam, Ajay and her father KK Shetty promised him of getting loan at minimum interest rate. They held discussion at the first floor of the Vidhana Soudha on January 2 and asked him to pay 1.12 per cent amount on loan amount as stamp charge. Later, they got five stamp papers of Rs 100 face value, and five stamp papers of Rs 20 face value from him and got his signature on them. After some time, they managed to get five cheques and six photos along with Rs 1.12 crore from him and escaped to Tamil Nadu. Against this, a case was filed at Cubbon Park police station, Devaraj said.
Now the police who arrested the accused recovered Rs 40 lakh from them and handed it over to Ramesh and remaining Rs 72 lakh has to be recovered from the accused, investigation officers said.
BSY office misused?
It is said that in order to cheat a person, the accused have misused the office of former chief minister and Opposition Leader BS Yeddyurappa on the first floor of the Vidhana Soudha. On the day of their dealing, P Karthikeyan and others who entered the Vidhana Soudha, sat in an empty room in ministers get up. Moreover, they also introduced themselves with the Vidhana Soudha staff, revealed the investigation.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
