The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths from Bengaluru arrested two persons accused of defrauding a businessman of crores of rupees by promising him a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket from Byndoor constituency in Udupi district, stated agency reports. According to the report in PTI, the two accused persons were arrested from the parking lot of Udupi’s Sri Krishna Mutt on Tuesday night. A police official was quoted saying that prime accused Chaitra Kundapura and another accused named Srikanth Nayak Pelattur were arrested from Udupi last night.

Reportedly, the BJP ticket aspirant and industrialist Govinda Babu was defrauded to the tune of nearly Rs 7 crore by the prime accused who posed herself as a social worker from the Billawa community close to Rashtriya Swayam Sevak and BJP leadership.