Woman conned by KBC officer over ‘Rs 35 lakh lottery win’
Mumbai: A Mumbai woman has approached police claiming she was conned of Rs 83,000 by unidentified caller/s who said she had won a Rs 35 lakh lottery, an official said on Monday. Ameerunnissa Abdul Kalam Sheikh (25), a Kandivali resident, told police she got calls from numbers that flashed as ‘KBC officer’ and ‘Government of India’ on her cellphone, he said. “Sheikh was contacted several times through a video- calling app between August 30 and September 16 informing her that she had won Rs 35 lakh in a lottery and would have to pay a processing fee of Rs 18,000,” he said. “Another call from a number that flashed as ‘government of India’ informed her she needed to pay Rs 25,000 as tax and a penalty of Rs 40,000 for giving wrong information to the government. After she deposited the money in an account given to her and realised she was duped, she approached police on September 26,” he said. A cheating case has been registered against as-yet unidentified owners of the mobile numbers from which she got the calls, the Kandivali police station official said. (PTI)
Under-construction shed collapses
Kolkata: An under-construction shed collapsed at Shalimar railway station in Howrah district on Monday, killing one worker and injuring four others, a senior official said. Another person is trapped under debris, he added. The injured have been rushed to Howrah General Hospital, Additional Director General, Railways, Adhir Sharma said. The construction work was being carried out outside the passenger area by IRCON, a turnkey government-undertaking, South Eastern Railway (SER) spokesman Sanjay Ghosh said. Senior SER officials are at the spot to supervise rescue and search operations. (PTI)
Senior TMC leader to join BJP
Kolkata: Senior TMC leader Sabyasachi Dutta, who was stripped of his decision-making power as Bidhannagar mayor for alleged anti-party activities, has said he will join the BJP on Tuesday in the presence of its national president Amit Shah. Shah is scheduled to address a seminar on National Register of Citizens and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill at Netaji Indoor Stadium here. “I will join the BJP tomorrow at Amit Shah ji’s programme at Netaji Indoor Stadium. The TMC is no longer a party of the masses, it has become a family enterprise,” Dutta told PTI over phone on Monday. The TMC MLA from Rajarhat-New Town, who was seen hobnobbing with BJP leader Mukul Roy over the past few months, had resigned from the post of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation mayor in July this year. (PTI)