Karnataka ex-professor cheated of Rs 1.19 crore over his own Facebook post on 30-year-old Canada accident

A 77-year-old retired professor in Karnataka who wrote on Facebook about a fatal accident that his colleague met with 30 years ago in Canada has been defrauded of Rs 1.19 crore, police said.

According to police, Shivanagappa Korishetter, a Dharwad resident who was a professor in the University of Ottawa, Canada, 30 years ago, wrote about the accident in which professor John Clerk died. He also wrote that Clerk’s wife, identified in the FIR as Dobera, was battling cancer in the United Kingdom.

In October last year, he received a message stating that Dobera wanted to transfer the couple’s savings, Rs 45.69 crore, to Korishetter so that he could open a charity trust to help the poor in India.