Finding of CDRs on phone leads to new FIR against 32-year-old woman accused in multiple cheating cases in Bengaluru

According to the police, Gowda often posed arsenic the sister of Karnataka Congress leaders D K Suresh and D K Shivakumar, to summation entree to affluent doctors and businessmen.

“There were cheating cases that were registered, and successful the people of investigations, it was recovered that the mobile telephone of this accused idiosyncratic contained CDRs of backstage persons. On the ground of this finding, a caller FIR has been registered and considering the seriousness of the transgression it has been handed implicit to an ACP fertile serviceman for investigation,” B Dayanand, Commissioner, Bengaluru police, said.

“The investigations volition look astatine who obtained the CDR from the telecom work providers and however it reached the accused,” said Dayanand.

According to the constabulary ailment registered by the Byatarayanapura constabulary connected February 5, the beingness of CDRs connected a telephone owned by Aishwarya Gowda was discovered successful the process of investigating a cheating lawsuit filed connected December 23, 2024, by the proprietor of a jewellery store, Vanitha Aithal. Aithal has accused Gowda of taking golden and wealth worthy implicit Rs 8 crore with the committedness of precocious returns and past betraying her trust.

The constabulary said that during the probe, they seized 5 mobile phones utilized by Aishwarya Gowda, and 2 phones utilized by her hubby K N Harish. They said they recovered CDRs of backstage persons successful an iPhone 11 Pro Max utilized by Gowda.

“On this phone… Aishwarya Gowda @Navyashree is recovered to person obtained Call Data Records (CDR) of backstage persons. Call Data Records (CDR) are the idiosyncratic accusation of a idiosyncratic which tin lone beryllium accessed by investigative agencies during the probe of a crime,” said the police.

Among the CDRs recovered connected the telephone of the accused are those of immoderate of the victims of the alleged cheating by Aishwarya Gowda and her husband. The constabulary probe volition look astatine whether the CDRs were leaked to Aishwarya Gowda by radical authorised to entree the information successful the constabulary department.

Police sources said Gowda posed arsenic a existent property businesswoman to summation entree to affluent radical similar doctors, businessmen and politicians earlier targeting immoderate of them for fraud. Gowda utilized a suite astatine a luxury edifice successful North Bengaluru to convey the content of being precise wealthy. “She had bodyguards and a fleet of luxury cars,” said a constabulary source.

Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni is 1 of the politicians allegedly associated with Aishwarya Gowda. Gowda reportedly gave him a luxury car but Kulkarni denied receiving immoderate gifts from her, and said that she is conscionable an acquaintance. “She wanted to person entree to a temple and approached maine successful this regard,” claimed Kulkarni.

Police sources said 1 of the adjacent associates of the MLA worked arsenic an adjutant to Gowda.

Apart from the jeweller, Gowda besides allegedly cheated 2 doctors who tally a integrative country centre, an obstetrician, and a tiny businessman’s household successful Mandya. In galore cases, the accused utilized the sanction of D K Suresh and claimed to beryllium his sister to summation the assurance of the victims, and successful 1 lawsuit she made an subordinate speech to a unfortunate connected a compartment telephone by pretending to beryllium the politician.

While the Bengaluru constabulary arrested Aishwarya Gowda and her hubby past twelvemonth successful 1 of the cases, they were granted bail by the Karnataka High Court connected the grounds that the constabulary did not supply immoderate crushed astatine the clip of their apprehension arsenic mandated by the Supreme Court.