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The Dakshina Kannada Cyber Economic and Narcotic (CEN) constabulary person arrested Avinash Ramesh Gowda, 24, a autochthonal of Maharashtra and nonmigratory of Mandya, successful transportation with an online fraud lawsuit registered successful 2025.
In a property release, the constabulary said complainant Yashodhar, a nonmigratory of Puttur, received a telephone from a idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium an enforcement of an security steadfast connected June 17, 2025, and asked him to wage wealth for the Reliance Insurance argumentation issued against the complainant’s HDFC recognition card. When the complainant refused to wage money, the caller asked him to stock the OTP helium had received for cancellation of the policy. After helium shared the OTP, an magnitude totalling ₹2.37 lakh got deducted connected antithetic dates from his recognition card.
The CEN constabulary investigated the lawsuit registered for offences nether Section 66 (D) of the Information Technology Act and Sections 318(4) and 319(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The constabulary recovered engagement of Gowda and arrested him connected Wednesday, February 11. He was produced earlier the jurisdictional magistrate, who remanded Gowda to 14 days of judicial custody, the constabulary said.
