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Drugs worth Rs 55 lakh seized at KIA; 2 nabbed

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March 24, 2019

Bengaluru, Mar 24: In one of the biggest drugs haul at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) here in recent times, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) nabbed two men who tried to smuggle out over Rs 55 lakh worth contraband, including cocaine, hashish and amphetamine, from Bengaluru to Doha. They had concealed the substances inside lunchboxes and a quilt.

Sources with the NCB’s Bengaluru zonal unit identified the smugglers as Noushad Mannakkamvalli, 24, from Malappuram, Kerala and Muhammed Nousheer, 29, from Kodagu, who were booked on an Friday evening Oman Air flight to Doha, Qatar. “Following information about large quantities of contraband being smuggled, we deployed our team in the departure area,” said a senior NCB official.

The team checked passengers, especially those taking flights to Doha and Dubai. “The duo had entered the security check area when our team intercepted them. Their answers were inconclusive and raised more suspicion. Their check-in bags were recalled for an inspection,” he added.

Drugs in quilt, lunch box

NCB sleuths found a quilt which appeared to have been stitched up. They cut it open to find 4.5kg of hashish worth nearly Rs 50 lakh packed inside. They also found two lunchboxes containing 955gm of amphetamine worth Rs 4 lakh and 30gm cocaine worth over Rs 1.5 lakh.

The duo, suspected to be regular gold smugglers from the Gulf, are believed to be active in drug smuggling from Bengaluru to Doha and other parts of the Gulf. A probe is on to check the source of drugs and if a bigger racket based in Bengaluru is involved in the smuggling from Bengaluru to Doha.

NCB arrested the men on Friday and the contraband and items used to smuggle them were seized. The duo were booked under the NDPS Act and sent to prison on Saturday afternoon.

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April 19,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 19: With six new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, Karnataka's total count of coronavirus patients has surged to 390, said the State's Health Department on Sunday.

"Six new cases have been confirmed for COVID-19 in the State from 5 pm yesterday till 5 pm today. Cumulatively, 390 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state," said the Health Department in a statement.

The total coronavirus cases in the State include 16 deaths and 111 discharges.

Deputy Chief Minister CN Ashwath Narayan said that "only essential and critical number of" employees of the Information Technology (IT) companies will be allowed to work from offices from April 20 onwards in Bengaluru, while others will have to continue working from home.

According to the latest update by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of positive cases in India has mounted to 16,116 and 519 deaths have been reported till now.

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April 10,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 10: Complaints have been registered after it came to light that the conditional permission to enter the Dakshina Kannada district for non-COVID-19 patients from Kerala has been misused on two occasions.

Police said on Friday that the Patients are allowed into the district after filling an online form and getting it authorised from the medical officer from Kasargod district hospital.

On April 9, a patient had arrvived at the district hospital complaining of head ache. After preliminary check up by the physician he left in an ambulance that had arrived from Kasargod earlier carrying another patient without informing the physician.

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July 28,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 28: Several state Congress leaders, including its President D K Shivakumar, among others, were detained by police as they tried to march towards Raj Bhavan here against the alleged attempts by BJP to topple the party's government in Rajasthan.

Shivakumar, along with Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah, state Congress Working President Eshwar Khandre, Salim Ahmed among others were stopped by the police midway as they marched from KPCC office towards Raj Bhavan.

Congress leaders then staged a dharna at the place where they were stopped. Addressing the gathering, Shivakumar accused the BJP of trying to "murder" democracy by destabilizing and removing elected governments.

"We wanted to protest against it and submit a memorandum to the President through the Governor," but the Karnataka government by using police was not letting them proceed towards Raj Bhavan, he said. "Despite our being a peaceful protest, the police stopped us," he said.

Siddaramaiah, echoing similar views, said peaceful protests against injustice was the right of every citizen. Alleging that the BJP was attempting to destabilise and remove the elected government in Rajasthan as it did in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, he said the Governor's office there (Rajasthan) was being 'misused'.

The Governor was working like an agent of the central government, he charged. He said, despite repeated appeals by the Rajasthan cabinet, the Governor there had not convened the assembly session, for the floor test to take place and for Congress to prove its majority. Police subsequently detained Shivakumar and some other Congress leaders and took them to a nearby police station.

They were later released. Meanwhile, as the Congress' protest amid Covid19 pandemic did not follow social distancing norms, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar hit out at that party's leaders. In a tweet Sudhakar said, for Congress leaders getting publicity was more important than social concerns.

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