Date:10/01/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/01/10/stories/2006011016050300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Woman accused of cheating people surrenders

Staff Reporter

Annapoorna Ravichander had allegedly cheated people of Rs. 4.68 crores

BANGALORE: A 40-year-old woman, who allegedly cheated people of Rs. 4.68 crores, has surrendered in the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.

Police gave her name as Annapoorna Ravichander, a resident of 7th B Main, 4th Cross, RPC Layout. Annapoorna alias Nigthy Anu, who was eking out a living by stitching and selling night gowns, was also running chit fund schemes and share-trading business.

After allegedly collecting crores of rupees from the public, she reportedly went absconding. When several investors filed complaints against her with the Vijayanagar police, she surrendered before the court on January 4, the police said.

The jurisdictional court has remanded her in police custody till Tuesday. The public who had invested money with her can approach the Vijayanagar police, according to a press release from the Police Commissioner.

Bag snatched

Two men, who came on a motorcycle, allegedly snatched a bag containing Rs. 11,000 cash and a mobile phone from a woman hailing from New Delhi when she was walking in Koramangala on Sunday.

Police said that the two men snatched the bag from Yasho Gupta while she was walking with a friend on Club Road in 6th Block, Koramangala.

Drowned

A 28-year-old man from Yeshwantpur, who had gone to Mekedatu for a picnic, drowned in the Cauvery on Sunday afternoon.

Police gave his name as Balveer Singh, an employee of a private firm in Goruguntepalya. Singh and his five friends had been to Mekedatu on three motorcycles.

The police said they are searching for Singh's body.

Run over

An unidentified man aged around 65 was run over by a train near Binny Mills on Monday. The City Railway police have registered a case.

Arrested

The Koramangala police have arrested two persons from Tamil Nadu on charges of burglary and recovered from them gold ornaments, silver articles and electronic goods, together worth Rs. 2 lakhs.

The arrested were identified as Ramamurthy (24) and Panneer (20), both residents of Thiruvannamalai.

Police claimed they had solved eight cases of burglary reported from Koramangala police station limits following the arrest.