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Woman cheated of Rs 25 lakh by ‘fiance’ she met online

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January 15, 2019

Bengaluru, Jan 15: A 34-year-old woman was cheated of over Rs 25 lakh by a man she met on a matrimonial website.

According to police, Rekha (name changed), a resident of Sarjapur Road, came across Ronith Malhotra on the portal in January 2018. Ronith claimed he was a software engineer in Delhi. Within a few days, the two decided to tie the knot. In February, he flew down to Bengaluru and met the woman at a flat in Mantri Lights apartment complex in Dollars Colony, JP Nagar.

He told Rekha she had to give him a sari, earrings and cash worth Rs 7.5 lakh as part of ritual in his family. In March, he visited Bengaluru again and took another Rs 6 lakh from the woman stating that he had to go to Darjeeling, where his mother had died.

In the next four days, he got the woman to transfer Rs 8 lakh to him in two transactions, saying he was in dire need of money. Ronith also got her to give him her Aadhaar and Pan cards. In May, he came to Bengaluru and took another Rs 4.3 lakh from her.

Rekha realized she had been cheated only after Ronith turned incommunicado. Her emails to him too did not elicit a reply. Puttenahalli police said the case was initially reported at Varthur police station and later transferred to them. “We have summoned the woman to get more details but she hasn’t turned up,” they added.

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News Network
July 3,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 3: Karnataka Health Department on Thursday permitted District Health Departments to appoint doctors with MBBS, on a contractual basis with permission of concerned District Health Officers and Commissioners, a statement said.

The state government has also hiked the salary of contractual doctors from Rs 45000 to Rs 60000 per month.

Earlier in the day, Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu urged contract doctors to continue offering their services amid their demand for regularisation of services.

"I request the contract doctors with folded hands to continue offering their services. With regard to their two demands, one of salary hike and the other being permanency, I assure all of them that I stand with them and their requests will definitely be fulfilled," said Mr Sriramulu.

The Chief Minister had also discussed about the two issues yesterday and agreed to facilitate the pay hike, he added.

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News Network
July 15,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 15: Karnataka on Wednesday reported 3,176 new cases taking the total count of cases in the state to 47,253.

A total of 1,975 new cases were reported from the Bengaluru alone, the state's health department said.

The toll has gone up to 928 with 87 deaths reported today.

The total count of COVID-19 cases in the country is 9,36,181.

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February 12,2020

Belagavi, 12: Even though the investigation into the four abandoned country pistols that were recovered by the Karnataka police on the outskirts of Waghawade village in Belagavi taluk last weekend did not make any headway, the police are verifying if the weapons had been used by the assassin of Gauri Lankesh for training.

Four country pistols were found abandoned on the outskirts of Waghawade on Sunday. Locals informed that the police had taken the weapons for inspection.

Prima facie it appeared that the weapons were rusted and had not been used for long. Cases had been registered against unidentified persons and investigations were in progress.

After reports that the weapons could have been used for training by the assassin of Gauri Lankesh in the forests in Khanapur, a few kilometres away from the spot wherein they were found, police have been looking into this angle too.

Sources said the condition of the weapons indicated that they have not been used for decades but to allay doubt all aspects were being looked into.

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