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7 held for hacking accounts and stealing cash using fake SIMs

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January 13, 2016

Bengaluru, Jan 13: The sleuths of the Cyber Crime police station have arrested seven people, including a Deputy Manager of Axis bank, for allegedly siphoning off cash Rs 1.8 lakh by fraudulent means.

hackingPolice said that on December 29, S.R. Narasimhan, retired Chairman and MD of National Hydro Electric Power Corporation, filed a complaint stating that the service of his Vodafone mobile number was terminated on December 4. After that his Axis Bank savings account was hacked and Rs 1,80,3751 was debited from his account in 17 fraudulent transactions made by unknown people on the intervening night of December 4 and 5.

The complainant came to know that his prepaid mobile connection has been changed to postpaid one by using fake documents by some unknown person. A case was registered under the provisions of IT Act.

The police team, led by DySP M.D. Sharath, found that Gopikrishna alias Gopi, 30, a Deputy Manager of Axis Bank’s Peddapalli branch in Telangana, had conspired with three accused - Ramana alias Ramana Reddy, 45, Nageswara Reddy, 27, and Veerabrahmam alias Anand, 23, - and provided them the account details customers in Karnataka, who were maintaining huge balances in Axis Bank.

“Nageswara Reddy and Anand obtained duplicate SIM card of the complainant's registered mobile number with the bank from Vodafone Store, by submitting fake documents and also changed the plan. The staff at Vodafone Store issued the SIM card without verification. Later, the accused transferred the amount to different mobile numbers using mobile banking and the LIME wallet options of Axis Bank and later withdrew the amount from Axis Bank ATMs,” the police said.

“The other three accused - Ramesh, 30, Kiran, 33, and Padmaja, 35, - had helped Nageswara Reddy and his accomplices obtain more than 100 fake SIM cards of Reliance company. Kiran, a distributor, provided SIM cards for fake documents, while Padmaja was a retail SIM card distributor. The accused had taken duplicate SIM cards of various victims from BSNL, Vodafone, Aircel and other service providers. These providers had issued duplicate SIM cards without proper verification.

Investigations also revealed that the accused have also hacked SBI Buddy Application and transferred money. FIRs have also been registered in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the police said. The police arrested all the seven accused within a week of filing the FIR.

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Suleman
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Wednesday, 13 Jan 2016

Next you will hear all those are released under bail.

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July 28,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 28: Several state Congress leaders, including its President D K Shivakumar, among others, were detained by police as they tried to march towards Raj Bhavan here against the alleged attempts by BJP to topple the party's government in Rajasthan.

Shivakumar, along with Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah, state Congress Working President Eshwar Khandre, Salim Ahmed among others were stopped by the police midway as they marched from KPCC office towards Raj Bhavan.

Congress leaders then staged a dharna at the place where they were stopped. Addressing the gathering, Shivakumar accused the BJP of trying to "murder" democracy by destabilizing and removing elected governments.

"We wanted to protest against it and submit a memorandum to the President through the Governor," but the Karnataka government by using police was not letting them proceed towards Raj Bhavan, he said. "Despite our being a peaceful protest, the police stopped us," he said.

Siddaramaiah, echoing similar views, said peaceful protests against injustice was the right of every citizen. Alleging that the BJP was attempting to destabilise and remove the elected government in Rajasthan as it did in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, he said the Governor's office there (Rajasthan) was being 'misused'.

The Governor was working like an agent of the central government, he charged. He said, despite repeated appeals by the Rajasthan cabinet, the Governor there had not convened the assembly session, for the floor test to take place and for Congress to prove its majority. Police subsequently detained Shivakumar and some other Congress leaders and took them to a nearby police station.

They were later released. Meanwhile, as the Congress' protest amid Covid19 pandemic did not follow social distancing norms, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar hit out at that party's leaders. In a tweet Sudhakar said, for Congress leaders getting publicity was more important than social concerns.

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March 23,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 23: Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi cautioned private bus transport services operators, taxis and autorickshaws from exploiting commuters in wake of bus and train services being suspended by the government as precautionary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

In a statement released here on Monday, Transport Minister Savadi said it has come to the notice that private buses, taxis and autorickshaws were misusing the opportunity and exploiting commuters. Inter-district bus services have been suspended in the districts wherein lockdown has been announced to protect the health of people and none should violate the decision of the government, he stated.

Transport and Police Department officials have been asked to taken action against those violating norms and exploiting commuters. Service providers for their profit cannot risk with the health of the people and repeated cases if come to the fore, they will not be spared, Savadi cautioned.

Government has taken measures to prevent spread of COVID-19. Private transport service providers and people should join hands and cooperate to contain it, he appealed. 

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June 12,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 12: The Central government has identified Karnataka's Udupi and Yadgir among the "emerging districts of concern" for COVID-19 in the country. Confirming the development, a top official of the state health department said, "they (centre) had reviewed these two districts a few days back...there was a sudden spurt of cases due to Maharashtra returnees turning positive." Sources said union cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba, during a recent video conference with state chief secretaries and health secretaries, had shared his thoughts on the issue.

According to the information shared, districts with more than 400 cases, half of which was reported post-May 18 lockdown relaxation, have been identified as "emerging districts of concern." They are concentrated in the seven states/union territories of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana. "Udupi and Yadgir from Karnataka, along with Gurugram in Haryana and Kolhapur in Maharashtra have 90 per cent of the cases recorded after May 18," they said.

As on June 11 evening, Udupi had a total of 969 positive cases, out of which 619 are active, while 735 positive cases have been reported in Yadgir, out of which 626 are active. The two districts had reported a total of only 11 cases each as on May 18. While Udupi till last evening had seen 349 discharges, it was 108 in Yadgir.

Both districts have reported one COVID related fatality so far. As of June 11 evening, cumulatively 6,245 COVID-19 positive cases were confirmed in the state, which included 72 deaths and 2,976 discharges.

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