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Fake shopping portal busted in Bengaluru

Benglauru: City Crime Branch (CCB) busted a fake shopping portal in Bengaluru by raiding its office and arresting six partners for allegedly duping gullible customers with false advertisements, police said late Saturday.

"The accused created a smart website BIGSOP.com, used an ICICI Bank payment gateway and lured gullible customers by advertising on its pop-ups ’You are the lucky internet winner of iPhones for Rs.599’," a senior police official told here.

Unwittingly, hundreds of gullible customers registered with the portal and paid the full amount only to find out later that they have been deceived by the suspects.

"As the address given on the portal was also fake, one of the victims of the fraud tweeted to city police about the scam, as he did not get the much promised iPhone," the crime branch sleuth pointed out.

"We have registered a case against the accused by taking the tweet as a complaint to nab them and investigate the case," the police official added.

Electronic devices explode in Primary Health Centre

Uppinangady : Loss of more than Rs 1 lac was incurred when a laptop computer, desktop computer and fridge exploded in a Primary Health Centre at Uppinangady on Sunday, November 16.

Erratic power supply and defective laptop battery is said to have led to the explosion. The alert employees who sprung to action doused the fire immediately thus averting a major incident.

No injuries were reported.

Six injured in bus-lorry collision

Uppinangady : Six persons, including two women passengers were injured in a head-on collision between a lorry and Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus at Nejikar in Ilanthila village of Belthangady Taluk on Monday, November 17.

The bus was on its way to Chamrajanagar from Dharmasthala and the lorry was going to Uppinangady.

The injured are lorry driver Isubu of Golithotta, bus driver Ashok and passengers Mailari, Sudhakumari, Tulasi and Rajesh. While the bus driver’s condition is said to be critical the other injured are recuperating.

With traffic being blocked for more than an hour, students, office goers and other commuters were forced to walk  for almost 2 kms to reach Uppinangady.

Dhananjay and Deepak of Uppinangady Police Station rushed to the spot and cleared the traffic.

A case has been registered.

Collision between two lorries leads to traffic jam

Udyavar : Two persons were critically injured in an accident between two lorries on NH 66 at Udyavar on Monday, November 17.

According to Kaup police, the accident took place around 7.45 a.m. when the lorry carrying wooden planks to Udupi collided head on with another lorry plying towards Mangalore.

The impact of the accident was such that the wooden plank were scattered on the road which led to traffic block almost for two hours.

Kaup police who visited the spot along with locals cleared the road. The injured were shifted to Udupi hospital. A case has been registered.