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Time of India
14-07-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
Bengaluru man wins Rs 15 lakh after 6-year wait for undelivered car
Bengaluru: After waiting six years for a car he never received, a city resident has been awarded more than Rs 15 lakh in compensation, refund, and litigation costs by the district consumer disputes redressal commission (Urban). Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The commission directed Kalyani Motors Pvt Ltd and Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd (both Bengaluru and Mumbai branches) to pay the amount to KA Manjunatha, a 48-year-old resident of Byraveshwaranagar. Manjunatha booked a Maruti Brezza ZDI+ with Kalyani Motors on Sept 10, 2018, by paying Rs 21,000 as booking amount. The total cost of the car was Rs 12.1 lakh. He availed a Rs 9 lakh loan from Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd, agreeing to repay it in 60 EMIs of Rs 22,100. The first EMI was paid on Nov 5, 2018. By Nov 9, 2023, he had paid 53 EMIs, amounting to Rs 12.1 lakh, including the booking amount. Despite regular payments, the vehicle was never delivered. Kalyani Motors initially promised delivery within a week but kept postponing it, citing "technical issues." Even after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted, the car was not delivered. In July 2023, he received a notice from the finance company demanding dues for a vehicle with a registration number. When he checked with the RTO, he found that the number had already been allotted to a different vehicle registered to someone named Vijayalakshmi in Oct 2018. On March 14, 2024, Manjunatha issued a legal notice to Kalyani Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services, demanding the car's delivery or a refund. Only Kalyani Motors responded, denying liability. Feeling cheated, Manjunatha filed a consumer complaint on May 31, 2024. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Kalyani Motors claimed the booking was initially in Manjunatha's son's name, who was ineligible for a loan. After transferring it to Manjunatha, a Rs 3 lakh down payment cheque reportedly bounced. The dealer argued that the finance could not be cancelled without consent from both parties. The finance firm, meanwhile, said they disbursed Rs 9 lakh directly to the dealer and continued collecting EMIs. The commission, however, found no evidence that the dealer made formal efforts to collect the balance payment or resolve the issue. On May 2, 2025, it ordered the refund of Rs 12.1 lakh with 8% interest, Rs 3 lakh as compensation, Rs 1.54 lakh from the finance firm, and Rs 15,000 towards litigation costs.
Time of India
12-06-2025
- Time of India
Cybercrooks hold retired engineer & wife under digital arrest in Bengaluru home for 58 days, extort Rs 4.8 crore
Bengaluru: A 77-year-old retired engineer and his were virtually held hostage in their home in JP Nagar for nearly two months by fraudsters who posed as investigators and extorted Rs 4.8 crore. The couple realised the folly only when the real cops came knocking at their door after receiving a tip-off from Chennai police. KS Manjunatha, a former engineer who had returned from Nigeria after retirement, became another victim of digital arrest, a growing scam that isolates and intimidates victims into blindly transferring large sums of money to fraudsters. He and his wife, living in their JP Nagar apartment while their children lived separately, had no idea their nightmare was just beginning when they received a call on March 19. The callers claimed to be from a bank and told Manjunatha his account was linked to illegal transactions. Soon after, they said a case was registered in Mumbai and that he was required to appear before law enforcement agencies, including CBI and ED. What followed was a harrowing 58-day period during which the couple, terrified and confused, were made to believe that they were under investigation and were repeatedly pressured into transferring money for cross verification into, what they claimed were, secure govt accounts. The ordeal only ended when alert cybercrime officers in Chennai, investigating a separate case where a victim had lost Rs 55 lakh in similar fashion, discovered a link to Manjunatha's account. Suspecting that he too had fallen prey to cybercriminals, they reached out to their Bengaluru counterparts. DCP (South-East) Sarah Fathima took swift action after receiving a tip-off from Chennai police. Using the bank's KYC data, she located the couple's residence in the south division and immediately updated then police commissioner B Dayananda, who gave the go-ahead to approach the family despite jurisdictional limitations. A police team led by ACP Govardhan Gopal and inspector Eashwari PN visited Manjunatha's residence. But what they encountered was startling as the aged couple, convinced they were under legitimate probe by national agencies, refused to believe police officials were there to help. It was only after the team contacted their son, a software engineer, that the fog of fear began to lift. He helped persuade his parents and eventually filed a complaint. Trail of transactions led to 2 Hyderabad bizmen As police traced the flow of funds, they found that large amounts had been funnelled into accounts belonging to Eashwar Singh and Narayan Singh Choudary, both businessmen from Hyderabad. Though not directly involved in the scam, they were arrested for allowing their bank accounts to be used to launder money from Manjunatha and other victims. Eashwar, who was in Sri Lanka at the time, claimed the funds were returned to him by a casino where he had lost Rs 15 lakh. He insisted he had no idea the money was from cyber fraud and that he had even gone to confront the casino owners about the transaction. However, police pointed out that he was aware of his driver Santosh Goud's frozen bank account, into which some of the illicit money had been routed. A lookout notice was issued, and Eashwar was arrested at Hyderabad airport on his return to India. In a twist that adds political colour to the case, Eashwar reportedly claimed during interrogation that he was related to a Telangana minister and had even sought a corporator's ticket. He has since been remanded to judicial custody. Narayan's case was no less dramatic. A grocery shop owner, he allegedly agreed to help a customer from his community by allowing him to use his bank account for a Rs 2 lakh commission. His account later received over Rs 1.8 crore, all of it traced back to cyber fraud victims. Police believe the scam is part of a sprawling cybercrime syndicate with operatives across several Indian states and links to foreign networks, including illegal casinos. . ENDS/// MSID:: 121782007 413 | Follow more information on Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad here . Get real-time live updates on rescue operations and check full list of passengers onboard AI 171 .
Time of India
11-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Ayurvedic treatment available on the coast model for the world: Laxmi Hebbalkar
Mangaluru: The ayurvedic treatment of the undivided Dakshina Kannada district has become a model for the entire world. Ayurveda has a history of 5,000 years, and the entire country has embraced ayurvedic treatment, said Laxmi Hebbalkar, minister for women and child was speaking at the inauguration of a new state-of-the-art diagnostic unit at Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) College of Ayurveda Hospital & Research Centre, at Kuthpady in Udupi, on Saturday. The minister said the SDM College is conducting excellent research in ayurveda across the country."I used to visit SDM College in Ujire every year with my family for ayurvedic treatment. Now, we go to the same institution's Kshemavana near Bengaluru. Ayurvedic treatment is soothing to the mind," Hebbalkar said, adding that recently, there has been more trust in ayurveda compared to the north Karnataka region, there is a large number of devotees for Lord Manjunatha of Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala. "Manjunatha signifies such deep faith and devotion," she this occasion, college principal Dr Mamatha KV, medical superintendent Dr Nagaraj S, college director Prasanna Rao, head of pharmacy department Muralidhar Ballal, and other staff members were present. Get the latest lifestyle updates on Times of India, along with Mother's Day wishes , messages , and quotes !
