Auto driver arrested for duping Filipino woman

Jewellery and articles worth Rs 2 lakh recovered

Police said Makeme Mariah Ido, a citizen of the Philippines, travelled by a bus from Hyderabad and got down at the Central bus stand on August 27. She hired Ahmad’s auto and loaded her luggage in it. She requested him to come to a lodge in Balepet where she had booked a room. She hired another auto and went to the lodge, added the police.

Instead of following Ido’s auto, Ahmad fled with her belongings. Ido lodged a complaint with the police. With the help of some autorickshaw drivers, the police managed to trace Ahmad’s whereabouts, arrested him and recovered jewellery and other articles, police added.

Fake electricals seized
The Enforcers of Intellectual Property Rights (EIPR ) sleuths and Yeshwantpur police raided J S Industries, Gokula, Bangalore and arrested one person for allegedly manufacturing and selling duplicate electrical products of Indian Nippon Electricals Limited (INEL) Company. The accused has been identified as Rajesh (50).

On a tip off, the police raided Rajesh’s unit and recovered duplicate electrical products including ignitors, stator plates, finished stators, winding machine and fast winder.