A youth from a village in Kadaba taluk in Udupi district was abducted for a ransom of Rs. 4 lakh on Thursday. The complainant, a 26-year-old man from the same village, received a call from one Siddiq on Thursday asking him to come to Gandhi Park in Uppinangady for work. Siddiq and Irshad Mata, along with Shafi Gadiyara, were in a car when they took the complainant to a house in Mallur where some unidentified persons allegedly assaulted him. They made the complainant call Sharuk asking him to come to Kadambuthe accused took Sharuk and his friend Faizal from Kadambu to a house in Mallur where they assaulted the complainant and Sharuk later the accused allowed the complainant and Faizal to leave but demanded a ransom of Rs. 4 lakh to release Sharuk. The police registered a case under various sections of IPC against Siddiq, JCB Karavelu, Irshad Mata, Shafi Gadiyara, and others. A woman lost Rs. 79,000 to online fraud after a fraudster who introduced himself as an official from the Mescom swindled her. The complainant had received a message on her mobile phone on September 3
