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New Indian Express
29-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Farmers in Tamil Nadu's Authoor threaten to seize cattle damaging crops
THOOTHUKUDI: Farmers in Authoor have pasted posters across the village warning farmers to tether cattle in sheds and warned to seize animals that stray into their fields and damge crop. Farmers said they have resorted to this as local body officials did not act on their repeated complaints about the cattle menace. A poster put up by the Authoorkulam Keezhpaguthi Vivasayigal Sangam stated that untended cows and goats enter paddy fields and banana plantation and damage crops. Further, the association stated that farmers would seize cows and goats, and levy fine of Rs 5,000 for cows and Rs 1,500 for goats respectively per day until the owners take them back. A farmer said the Authoor town panchayat had not taken any action despite lodging several complaints. An activist Jahir Hussain, also Authoor town secretary of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), said that the petitions submitted to the panchayat officials to the collector, urging to control the cattle menace has yielded no results.
Time of India
18-05-2025
- Time of India
‘CBI sleuths' con elderly doctor of Rs1.2cr, 2 held
Trichy: Cyber crime police arrested two people from Trichy for posing as CBI officers and swindling more than a crore of rupees from an 82-year-old doctor from Tiruvarur district. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Police said the group got the elderly man to part with his money claiming they were arresting him digitally for 'illegal activities.' The doctor, Dr Meera Hussain, was running a clinic in his native place, Muthupet. He told police that he received video calls a few weeks ago from a group of people claiming to be CBI officials. They told him that they have found him indulging in several illegal activities, and hence were arresting him 'digitally.' The group threatened to visit him in person and arrest him unless he made a transaction of a huge sum. The doctor panicked and sent around Rs1.19 crore in two transactions. When the fraudsters called the doctor and pressed him again for a larger amount, he learnt that he was being deceived, and refused. He filed a complaint with the cyber crime police on Thursday. The cyber sleuths sprang into action, traced the doctor's recent calls and searched for the source. Unlike in many other scams, they found that the fraudsters were in nearby Trichy. On Saturday, they arrested two people named Jahir Hussain, 25, and Benedict Raj, 27. The accused were booked under BNS 316(2) for criminal breach of trust, 318(3) for cheating and under section 66D of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act for cheating by personation using a computer resource. They were produced in a court in Tiruvarur which remanded them at Nagapattinam district jail in judicial custody. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Police suspect that the group is involved in more such scams. "The case is under investigation. We are still learning about the modes of operation of the perpetrators and examining the loopholes they exploited. More details will be disclosed later after a thorough probe," Tiruvarur SP Garad Karun told TOI.
