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Mangaluru cops catch seven youths for using ganja

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October 18, 2017

Mangaluru, Oct 18: As many as seven youths have been arrested by the sleuths of City Crime Branch of Mangaluru City Police for consuming ganja.

The arrests were made as part of a special anti-narcotics drive carried out to detect and book youths for using ganja.

Based on a tip off that a group of youths were using ganja at a vacant plot near a place of worship at Bajjodi 2nd Cross Road under Kankakandy Town Police Station limits on Tuesday, the CCB sleuths swooped down on the place and apprehended the youths and seized the drugs from them.

The youths, residents of various places across the city were addicted to ganja, T R Suresh, city police chief said in a release on Wednesday. Parents/guardians of the youths were summoned to CCB office and asked to keep an eye on their respective wards and ensure they steered clear from drugs in future. With one youth, a final year degree college student in the city, CCB sleuths summoned the college principal and informed the principal about his activities.

The CCB sleuths handed over the youths to the jurisdictional police station for further action, Suresh said and a case registered against them. The accused include a teenager, and rest in the age-group of 21 to 27-years.

While one of them in unemployed, one is a student, other working as store in-charge at a hotel in Mysuru, one has quit his corporate job in Bengaluru, other worked as a holiday consultant in Goa and another an interior-designer and one a drop out.

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March 9,2020

Kalaburagi, Mar 9: As the International Women's Day was celebrated all across the globe, the Department of Post inaugurated the first-ever all-women-employees operating post office here in Kalaburagi.

"Today, we have declared the Jagat Post Office under the Kalaburagi district as women's post office. From today onwards, women staff is going to work here exclusively," CG Kamble, Assistant Superintendent, Post Office, told media.

One of the employees of the post office inaugurated on Monday said: "We are happy that we can work freely as all the employees here are women. Similarly, the government must also take steps to identify one of the offices in the state as only women employees' office."

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January 23,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 23: Bajpe Police on Thursday registered yet another case against the prime accused in Mangaluru International Airport case, Aditya Rao.

According to the police, a complaint was received from the officials of Indigo flight that they had to delay their flight scheduled to take off for Hyderabad at 1615 hrs after receiving a hoax call from Aditya, threatening of bomb.

They also asserted that the passengers were de-boarded from the flight and the luggages were brought back to security check again.

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July 30,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 30: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palika (BBMP) on Wednesday issued a notice restricting the sacrifice of animals during Bakrid or other religious occasions in certain places.

This year Eid al-Adha or Bakra eid will be celebrated on August 1.

"The administration has prohibited the sacrifice of animals in public roads, footpaths, inside or outside the premises of hospitals/nursing homes, schools and colleges, temples mosques, other religious places or public places," the BBMP said in a public notice.

Person or organisation violating the notice is liable to be prosecuted under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, stated BBMP.

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