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The Udupi constabulary person arrested a 21-year-old antheral for allegedly creating a fake website of Kollur Mookambika Temple and cheating radical by making devotees to publication rooms utilizing that website.
The accused person identified arsenic Nazir Hussain of Rajasthan, the constabulary said.
In the ailment registered by the Kollur Police connected November 3, the temple’s enforcement serviceman Prashanth Kumar Shetty stated that, arsenic against the archetypal website http://karnatakatemplesaccomodation.com, a fake website ‘Karnataka temple accommodation’ was created. This fake website was being utilized to reserve six rooms successful the temple’s Lalitambika Guest house. The fraudster had sent a PhonePay QR Code, though WhatsApp, by which an beforehand magnitude was received. The fraudsters issued a fake receipt for the payment, Mr. Shetty said.
A squad comprising Circle Inspectors B. Shivakumar and Santosh A Kaikini, and Police Sub Inspectors Vinay M. Korlahalli and Bheema Shankar Sinnoor went to Khairtal Tijara territory and secured Hussain connected December 19. The laptop utilized by him to make the website was seized.
He was produced earlier the tribunal successful Byndoor, which remanded Hussain successful judicial custody.
Hussain was booked for offences nether Sections 318 (2) and 318(4) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Sections 66(C) and 66 (D) of Information Technology Act.
In a statement, Udupi Superintendent of Police Hariram Shankar said Hussain volition beryllium inquired into to find retired whether helium has created akin fake websites of different spiritual places.
