Rs. 45 lakh worth gold recovered, one MG Hector car seized Mysore/Mysuru: Lashkar Police have arrested a 46-year-old inter-State conman from Kerala on charges of cheating a city jeweller of gold and have recovered Rs. 45 lakh worth gold besides seizing a MG Hector SUV from him. The arrested conman is S.A. Hameed Ali, a…
Conman who pulled wool over Police eyes arrested
April 22, 2019Engineering graduate poses as probationary IPS officer; cools his heels in jail Mysuru: An engineering graduate calling himself a Kerala Cadre IPS officer on probation tried to pull a fast one on City Police officers by seeking an air-conditioned SUV for a family vacation. But an alert officer from Krishnaraja Police Station caught his lie…
Conman cheats man after collecting his ATM card details
November 16, 2018Mysuru: An unidentified person, claiming to be a bank official, has cheated a man of Rs. 9,999 after allegedly collecting the ATM card details. The man, who was cheated, is Nagaraj, a resident of Bannimantap and an employee of a Hotel near Woodlands Theatre in city. According to Nagaraj, he received a call on his…
Conman cheats retired ASP of Rs.38,000 at ATM
June 27, 2018Mysuru: A conman, who helped a retired Mysuru district Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) to take out the balance slip at an ATM, has allegedly withdrawn Rs.38,000 from the ASP account, thus cheating him. The retired ASP, who has been cheated, is P. Venkataswamy and the incident took place on June 12 at the SBI…
Conman posing as Police Commissioner’s PA attempts to extort money from Cop
April 28, 2018Mysuru: An incident of a conman calling a Police Inspector over the phone and trying to extort money by posing as the PA of City Police Commissioner and later backtracking after the Inspector became alert, has been reported in city. On Thursday, Jayalakshmipuram Inspector B.G. Prakash, who was deputed at Udayagiri, following the recent riots…
Dubai Dreams: Conmen cheat two city youths
October 11, 2017Mysuru: It’s a dream shattered for two well-educated youths from city who wanted to earn good money in Dubai. They were cheated by three conmen who posed as well-settled and highly-influential employers. Chasing Dubai dreams, the youths ended up paying Rs. 9 lakh that they had borrowed from money-lenders, friends and family members. While one…
Conmen take OLX advertisers on a royal ride; flee with bikes
July 13, 2017Mysuru: The OLX app is a fun, cool and easy way to buy and sell things around you. Talk to anyone if you have something to sell or buy and this is the advise one gets that it is easiest to buy and sell things using this wonderful app. Realising how gullible people can be,…
Bengaluru conman had cheated many women in Mysuru too
June 28, 2017Mysuru: A youth, who is in the custody of Bengaluru Police for allegedly cheating nearly 100 women by promising to marry them after befriending them on matrimonial websites, has cheated many women in Mysuru too and cases have been booked against him in Krishnaraja Police limits. In fact, he was arrested in Mysuru a couple…
Conman arrested for cheating
March 10, 2017The K.R. Police have arrested a conman on charges of cheating a person from city of Rs. 2.80 lakh on the promise of a job in the Railways. The arrested has been identified as Preetham. Umesh, a resident of K.R. Mohalla in his complaint with the Police said that Preetham after befriending him, promised a…
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