Couple arrested for cheating man
The Hindu
Victim lured into depositing ₹ 1 crore in return for land
The Hyderabad Cyber Crime police on Tuesday apprehended a couple for allegedly cheating a person of approximately ₹ 1 crore on the pretext of marriage.
Police identified the accused as Yerragudla Dasu, a techie-turned-fruit vendor, and Yerragudla Jyothi, a teacher, residents of Guntur district.
The accused allegedly lured the victim, identified as Vijay Reddy, into depositing ₹ 1 crore after coming in contact with one Kalyanisri on Facebook. The victim started chatting with her and offered to marry her, to which the latter agreed. However, she said that with her father dead, her brother wanted to grab a land parcel, and that she wanted to register it in her name. She urged the victim to help her transfer a land parcel in her name. She claimed that her family members wanted to stake claim to the land, and in return give him a part of the land parcel.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.